Two Lovers 2008 123movies

Watch: Two Lovers 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancée left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents’ business associates, frank, direct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard’s shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra’s fidelity for the moments Michelle’s moods swing toward him? Can this end well?.
Plot: A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 40,942
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	74/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 714 Popularity: 7.957 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Shiksa Factor
As this film began, I thought, “What have I gotten myself into?” Joaquin Phoenix playing a character, Leonard, who attempts suicide before the lights in the theater are down? This is going to be a long ride and my shoulders slumped into the seat. But, instead, this funny, romantic intensely felt film slowly takes control of the audience and we shake our heads both in recognition of the folly of the characters as well as the exactitude with which the actors hit each and every mark. I wanted to applaud at the end for (1) the sustained tone, and (2)that it wasn’t the film I feared at the opening.

Isabella Rosellini, as Leonard’s mother, quickly lightens up the mood. (I should say, The Great Isabella Rosellini.) She has little to say but communicates volumes as a doting mother of a very troubled son. But she’s also very funny in her hovering (literally peering under her son’s door to see if he’s okay).

What triggers the action is the introduction of a girl Sandra (played by Vinessa Shaw) chosen by Leonard’s parents to divert him from the heartbreak that has made him suicidal. She’s a perfect choice, and we all nod, “This won’t work,” because she’s exactly what Leonard needs. He’s so caught up in his suffering that he can’t see anything beyond that until supreme suffering simultaneously walks into his life: Her name is Michelle, and she’s played by the exquisite Gwyneth Paltrow.

If you’re a fan of Paltrow’s, you know just how Leonard feels. He’s ready to jump through any hoop just to be near Michelle, and wouldn’t any of us? Paltrow gives such a winning performance of what none of us need and all of us want, that even by the end we want everything to revolve around her (as Michelle wants too).

This is not only a film about infatuation with various stages and maturity of love, it’s also about a place, and that place is New York City. With wonderful and flakey choices on the soundtrack, New York is cupid’s hell. From the excitement of a group of people off on a lark to a dance club to one of the most unusual first dates in a high brow Manhattan restaurant (lushly scored with Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”) each and every locale is a Valentine to how much trouble you can get into in the big city. Watch out for those Michelles! Beautifully filmed, masterfully directed, being released so soon after the Oscar awards, the only sad thing is that it wasn’t released just a few months earlier.

A small, but very affective watch.
James Gray’s latest film tells the tale of Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who had a problematic break-up with his fiancée two years ago, and has since been heading down a suicidal road. 4-months into living back home with his anxious parents (played by Moni Moshonov and Isabella Rossellini) and helping out at his father’s dry-cleaning business, Leonard is introduced to Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), a sweet daughter of his father’s business friend. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, Leonard has moments of true spark with her, and you can see his eyes changing away from the torment inside. A woman is surely the right thing for Leonard, as he carves through the days with a worn-out heart and a mind in loneliness. Soon after meeting Sandra, he befriends Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), a beautiful but messed-up girl that’s dating her married boss (played by Elias Koteas). With her, Leonard sees an escape, and a burning romance. Leonard’s mind is now set on two women, and he finds himself torn between them.

James Gray hadn’t really impressed me with his earlier films, for me they all lacked out on the intensity and became standard crime-thrillers. With his latest melodramatic romance, he really surprised me; he does a caring job directing the three performers, and he tells a strange and tender story. The music of the film is Jewish guitar-instrumentals that are carefully intertwined, but most of the film has got a blanket of quiet bleakness, and it’s covering every little corner.

The performances of Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw are great, and although the two never share screen-space, director Gray naturally and carefully shifts between the two lives Leonard is living, and so the two of them add lovely pieces to the story. But it’s in-between the double relationship the film and its protagonist is living, the film has to connect, and it couldn’t have been done better than by Joaquin Phoenix. Leonard is a suicidal depressive that enters human-bounding and the give & receive of it, and this is a very difficult character to portray – but just look at Phoenix, he is phenomenal; the incredible naturalism of it shows Phoenix in the performance of his career.

The melancholy of the film doesn’t make it for the dominant audience, but I’ve never even cared a bit for that, and it’s a delight that romance on screen can be thrown upon like this. ‘Two Lovers’ is a small film with a heart that’s full of rare atmosphere, the form of it is tearing and in center, a superb Joaquin Phoenix.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 9800000
Revenue 16303643
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director James Gray
Writer James Gray, Ric Menello
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw
Country United States, France
Awards 3 wins & 18 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke S4 Lenses, Arricam ST, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,039 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)