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| Marion Coutillard |
ERA UMA VEZ EM NOVA IORQUE (THE IMMIGRANT, USA, 2013) - In American popular culture, and in the private lore of millions of American families, the immigrant experience of the late-19th and early 20th centuries is often presented as a chronicle of struggle and triumph, a parable of dreams come true. In “The Immigrant,” James Gray (who directed the film and wrote it with Richard Menello) tries to push through this rosy nostalgia and recapture some of the terror and strangeness of the journey from the Old World to the New. The film’s period recreation of New York in 1921 is meticulously drawn in rich, dark colors and chiaroscuro displays of light and shadow. According to the color coincidence, Gray is a very conscious filmmaker who lets no visual detail escape his attention, and sometimes that has the effect of making everything seem preserved in amber, or as if we are watching a dream. Moreover, Marion Cotillard is so beautiful and talented that, besides her scenes, she might also steal our hearts.
