Two Lovers
An essential and timeless theme if ever there was one, love naturally holds a special place in cinema. Romantic, sensual, obsessive, ambiguous, forbidden, lighthearted or profound, love on screen is as diverse as the individuals who live its stories. Drawing form different eras, tones, and cinematic styles, this program brings together a selection of remarkable films that will warm your heart from the start of the winter season to Valentine’s Day.
Brooklyn, nowadays. Leonard, a depressed man, is torn between the family friend his parents want him to marry and his new neighbor.
James Gray
Of Ukrainian descent, James Gray was born in New York in 1969. Initially aspiring to be a painter, he fell in love with cinema as a teenager after discovering the films of Francis Ford Coppola. During his time at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, he directed Cowboys and Angels (1991), a student film that enabled him to finance his first feature film, Little Odessa (1994), which he directed at the age of 25. This debut earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Venice International Film Festival. Gray’s subsequent films, The Yards (2000), We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013), The Lost City of Z (2016) and Ad Astra (2019), feature star-studded casts and were selected for international film festivals. In 2022, he directed Armageddon Time, a deeply personal autobiographical film recalling his youth in Queens.
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