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Cannes![]() Cannes Festival News and Dailies I Cannes Market Dailies Les Dailies du Festival I Les News du Marché ARCHIVES Market coverage 2018 I Festival coverage 2018 Cannes Market 2017 coverage Cannes festival 2017 coverage I Video gallery I Image gallery I Conference Future of Cinema in Cannes I PROMOTE YOUR FILM I VIDEO SERVICES IN CANNES Filmfestivals.com has become the number 1 online media on cannes with 606 articles published last year. 12 newsletters reaching close to 2 M film professionals...![]() In competition: "Two Lovers" by James GrayThe film: Premiering in Competition, Two Lovers by James Gray is the third film the American director has brought to Cannes, eight years after The Yards and one year after We Own the Night. Set in Brooklyn, it stars Joaquin Phoenix, a frequent presence in Gray's films, playing a man named Leonard Kraditor who has returned to live with his family after a traumatic romantic disappointment. There, he meets two women: Michelle, the new neighbor, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, and Sandra, the daughter of his parents' friends, a role for Vinessa Shaw. Between these two ladies, Leonard's heart bounces to and fro… The feature is quite a departure from the director's two previous crime thrillers. According to Gray, "the inspiration for Two Lovers came from a number of sources including Dostoevsky’s novella, “White Nights,” about a man who enters into a platonic friendship with a woman he meets on the streets and develops an obsession with her. I found the novella very moving. It’s the story of a person who is clearly suffering from a type of manic disorder. But what it’s really about is how he deals with love. It’s often very difficult to treat love with a kind of seriousness. It’s usually treated in a romantic comedy format because the state of being in love is, in itself, almost preposterous. Often we are really in love with a fantasy or an obsession.” From there, he began writing a script "about love, about something more personal to me."
Press conference: American director James Gray is presenting his third film in Competition at the Festival de Cannes, entitled Two Lovers. The press conference was held today and was also attended by actreses Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw, as well as producer Donna Gigliotti. Excerpts follow. Joaquin Phoenix could not make it to Cannes because of a gastro-intestinal flu, and sent the following message by email: "I am so sorry to miss the important Cannes Film Festival and so appreciate all the support from the French film community. They helped to finance this wonderful film, and have always been firmly behind James Gray’s films, and I am very disappointed to not be able to participate with my director and co-stars.” James Gray on writing the script, for his lead stars in particular: Gwenyth Paltrow on her character: James Gray on why this is not a romantic comedy: Vinessa Shaw on her character being tragic… or not: James Gray on the Hollywood happy ending: 21.05.2008 | Cannes's blog Cat. : Cannes Cannes Cannes Film Festival Cinema of the United States Donna Gigliotti finance food Gwenyth Paltrow Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Paltrow Jacques Lacan james gray James Gray Joaquin Phoenix Leonard Kraditor Today Two Lovers Two Lovers Two Lovers Vinessa Shaw Vinessa Shaw FESTIVALS
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