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The Two Faces Of January (film)
''The Two Faces of January'' is a 2014 thriller film written and directed by Hossein Amini, in his List of directorial debuts, feature film directorial debut. It is based on Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel ''The Two Faces of January'' and stars Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. Filming took place on location in Greece and Turkey, and at Ealing Studios in London. It premiered in February 2014 in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In 1962, New York con man Chester MacFarland and his wife Colette are touring Greece. At the Acropolis of Athens, Acropolis, they meet Rydal Keener, an American who is alienated from his family and who refused to attend his father's funeral in the US. Rydal scams tourists while working as a tour guide in Athens. The MacFarlands invite him to dinner. Rydal, intrigued by the couple's wealth and Colette's beauty, accepts their invitation and brings along a girlfriend. Colette likes Rydal bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hossein Amini
Hossein Amini ( fa, حسین امینی; born 18 January 1966) is an Iranian-born British screenwriter and film director. Amini has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film '' The Wings of the Dove'', including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's ''Drive'' (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. For his directorial debut, he both wrote and directed ''The Two Faces of January'', an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel. Early life, family and education Hossein Amini was born in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran. His early life was spent in Tehran where he attended the British School. When he was 11 years old, he and his family moved to England. He attended Bryanston School, a public school in Dorset, and won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |