In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the c... Read allIn 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
- Awards
- 15 wins & 29 nominations
- Rosie Hertz
- (as Yelena Solovey)
- Leo Straub
- (as Patrick O'Neill)
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- TriviaMarion Cotillard had to memorize 20 pages of Polish dialogue and she had only two months to learn it.
- GoofsThe famous opera singer Enrico Caruso did sing at Ellis Island, but not in February 1921. Carusos's last performance was in late December 1920, after which his health deteriorated.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Bruno Weiss: If you could lick my heart, you'd taste nothing but poison. See, you think there's goodness in everybody, but there isn't. So you go and you forget about me, and you forget about this place. And you forget about those things that I made you do! Because I took everything from you and I gave you nothing! Nothing. 'Cause I'm nothing.
[stumbles and falls]
Ewa Cybulska: [hugs him] You are not nothing.
- Crazy creditsThe very, very last credit, after the logo for Wild Bunch, is "Keep Your Head." (with the period), appearing as if typed out with two fingers.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Huffpost Live: Marion Cotillard LIVE (2015)
- SoundtracksBuffalo Girls
Traditional
Performed by The Morrie Morrison Orchestra
Arranged by Morrie Morrison
Courtesy of Fervor Records Vintage Masters
Fleeing the brutalities of Trotsky's Red Army, Polish Ewa (Marion Cotillard) and her sickly sister arrive in New York cira 1920. When her sister is quarantined and both are threatened with deportation, Ewa is taken notice and saved by the faux-sensitive brothell pimp Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix) and blackmailed into prostitution. Just when Ewa may succumb to the sort of drab, bleak life that she was trying to allude, Bruno's cousin Orlando the Magician (Jeremy Renner) shows up and both men via their own quirky methods try to light a fire in the heart of the pretty foreigner.
In her best part since "Rust and Bone", Cotillard is Oscar worthy in a showy albeit poetic performance (made all the more impressive that she speaks Polish throughout most of it). Phoenix is superb as usual, as the repressed and impotent man who wants to think he's in charge. But Renner steals the show. Right when you think the movie is going to slide under the weight of the misery of its subject, his Orlando appears like a glowing gaslight of fun amongst the dim rooms and crowded corridors. Like his work in "American Hustle", its criminal that his spritely performance here will go unrewarded and under the radar.
Although the universal tale of Gray's film isn't exactly something we haven't seen before (from Kazan's bold "America, America" to Ron Howard's putrid "Far and Away") "The Immigrant" presents a rare and thoughtful experience, one in which we can learn something about the lives of long ago as well as our own.
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- Also known as
- Nightingale
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Box office
- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,025,328
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $44,064
- May 18, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $5,952,884
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1