The Immigrant Film Analysis

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The Immigrant is an American drama movie filmed in 2013 and is directed by James Gray, featuring Jeremy Renner, Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard. It was chosen for the Palme d 'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. The working labels of the film were The Nightingale and Low Life.
The Immigrant is not just a movie based on the past history but seems like it has been made from a different time. Considering back to apparently old-fashioned styles of storytelling, the latest one from the director James Gray set about its business with effortlessly manicured detail and a cautious pace, viewing the adventures of an unfortunate Polish woman who has recently arrived to the United States and who learns how tough it is to attain American Dream. This is such an brainy, mature effort that it is provoking and making a slight mystifying that it is not more emotionally appealing than it is.
Marion Cotillard plays Ewa who is a young Polish woman and has reached at Ellis Island with her sister named Magda (Angela Sarafyan), in 1921. Ewa only gets into confusion, hoping to seek happiness in America and break free from the fears of World War I, as her sister is detained for doubt of having tuberculosis and Ewa is allowed to bear all this after it was believed that she is of little character because of an undetermined incident that happened on the boat to America. It seems like Ewa is predestined for an instant exile until she is saved by Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix), a native man who proposes