Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith provides the plot and writer-director Hossein Amini supplies the culture in TWO FACES, a gripping old-school suspenser.
The Two Faces of January
Screenwriter Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Drive) makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962, and adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his young wife Collete (Kirsten Dunst) meet American expat Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a scammer working as a tour guide. Instead of becoming his latest marks, the two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the test.
Genre
Thriller/Suspense
Runtime
98
Language
English,
Greek,
Turkish
Director
Hossein Amini
Cast
Kirsten Dunst,
Viggo Mortensen,
Oscar Isaac
FEATURED REVIEW
Steven Mears, Film Comment
In the studio era, when he would have flourished, Viggo Mortensen’s shorthand description might have been “dashing but dangerous; cultivated veneer hides mysterious, checkered past.” Ergo screenwriter Hossein Amini’s directorial debut finds Mortensen perfectly cast in the Joseph Cotten–ish role of ...
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