Marion Cotillard is an icon of suffering in James Gray’s somber passion play.
In its stripped-down realism and blistering fixation on its main character’s grappling with life and mortality, the film is kin to Roberto Rossellini’s collaborations with Ingrid Bergman.
James Gray has been working toward The Immigrant for his entire career.
A moving ode to loneliness and regret, chockablock with sensualist and observational grace notes.
The buried themes in James Gray’s film slowly emerge from its accumulation of quotidian, seemingly small details.