Tag: Two Lovers

  • Tracking Joaquin Phoenix’s Long Road From Sidekick to Leading Man

    Tracking Joaquin Phoenix’s Long Road From Sidekick to Leading Man

    (Welcome to Role Call, where we examine two performances from an actor – their first defining role and their most recent/last – to get a sense of who they are.) Joaquin Phoenix has been playing the Joker for a long time. As the awkward romantic Leonard Kraditor in Two Lovers. As the lonely, optimistic Theodore…

  • Film Review: ‘A Faithful Man’

    Film Review: ‘A Faithful Man’

    French actor Louis Garrel has been married twice, first to Iranian talent Golshifteh Farahani, and now to model-cum-actress Laetitia Casta. He has also directed two features, the first a free-wheeling love-triangle comedy called “Two Friends” in which Garrel plays the cad who comes between his best friend and the object of his obsession (played by…