The Two Faces of January (film)


The Two Faces of January is a 2014 thriller film written and directed by screenwriter Hossein Amini in his directorial debut. Based on Patricia Highsmiths 1964 novel of the same name, the film stars Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac. Filming took place on location in Greece and Turkey and at Ealing Studios. The film premiered in February 2014 in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Colette likes Rydal, but Chester does not trust him. After dinner, they part, but Rydal goes back to their hotel to return a bracelet Colette left in their shared taxi. Meanwhile, a private detective hired by victims of Chesters investment swindles goes to the MacFarlands hotel room and demands that Chester repay their money. The detective pulls a gun, and Chester kills him in a brief struggle. While he is trying to stow the body in the detectives hotel room, Rydal finds him in the corridor. Chester asks Rydal for his help, pretending that he found the detective drunk and unconscious at the bar.Rydal takes the MacFarlands to see a friend who can furnish false passports to replace those they left at their hotels front desk. He suggests waiting for the counterfeit documents on Crete. There they cannot check into a hotel without identification papers. They spend the evening at a restaurant where Chester gets drunk watching Rydal and Colette dance and grow close. They all sleep the night on the quayside. They travel by bus to Chania, where Colette visits Rydals room while her husband sleeps it is left ambiguous whether they have sex. On the way back to Iraklion, Colette believes someone has recognized her from newspaper pictures of the Americans who fled the hotel in Athens, and runs off the bus at a stop. Chester and Rydal follow and together they walk to the ruins of Knossos. ........

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