The Immigrant

Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner

Set in 1921 the film takes us through the various humiliations suffered by a beautiful young Polish woman trying with her sister to enter the land of milk and honey. She is 'forced' to prostitute herself to pay for the bribes required to get her sister out of hospital where the latter is seemingly dying from TB.

The thee leads were good as always but something was missing here. I never cared about any of this. The sets were too perfect, too clean, too stage-lighted...the whole thing never seemed real to me. It was too hollywood, too fake.  MC chose to play her character as a near mute...watching, suffering in silence. That didn't help. Neither did the clumsy cue music.

A week from now I'll have trouble remembering anything about this lifeless movie.

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