The Immigrant

The Immigrant

Sat 6/21 4:00 & 9:00; Sun 6/22 5:00; Mon 6/23 6:30; Tue 6/24 9:00; Wed 6/25 6:30; Thu 6/26 4:00 & 9:00

Dir: James Gray / 2014 / USA / 120 min / DCP

Reaching back to the classic studio era’s tradition of cinematic melodrama, and even farther back to D.W. Griffith’s incandescently suffering heroines, James Gray’s (The Yards, Two Lovers) newest film, The Immigrant, is like a sepia-toned photograph come to life. It is the story of Ewa (Marion Cotillard), a Polish Catholic young woman who in 1921 along with her sister Magda has fled war and almost certain death for a new life in America, and whose American Dream is nearly shattered before she even sets foot inside the country. Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice and the LA Weekly enthuses, “…anyone who cares about movies, and about what movies can be, should try to see it on the big screen. It’s as if the ghosts of an older, vanished New York have been freed from the tyranny of faded photographs and allowed, once again, to move, think and feel.”