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Christy Lemire from ''[[RogerEbert.com]]'' said the film was "Beautiful and thoroughly unpredictable; you never know where Nguyen is going with this story, including the chilling, sci-fi/horror direction he heads in toward the film's climax."<ref>https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/two-lovers-and-a-bear-2016</ref>
Christy Lemire from ''[[RogerEbert.com]]'' said the film was "Beautiful and thoroughly unpredictable; you never know where Nguyen is going with this story, including the chilling, sci-fi/horror direction he heads in toward the film's climax."<ref>https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/two-lovers-and-a-bear-2016</ref>


Glenn Kenny of the ''[[The New York Times]]'' was quoted as saying the film has "Beauty", but noted that it had an "overheated romanticism".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/movies/two-lovers-and-a-bear-review.html?_r=0</ref>
Glenn Kenny of ''[[The New York Times]]'' was quoted as saying the film has "Beauty", but noted that it had an "overheated romanticism".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/movies/two-lovers-and-a-bear-review.html?_r=0</ref>


====Canadian critics====
====Canadian critics====

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Two Lovers and a Bear
Film poster
Directed byKim Nguyen
Written byKim Nguyen
Produced byRoger Frappier
Starring
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byRichard Comeau
Music byJesse Zubot
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • May 18, 2016 (2016-05-18) (Cannes)
  • October 7, 2016 (2016-10-07) (Canada)
  • December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8.2 million[1]

Two Lovers and a Bear is a 2016 Canadian independent drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen. The film stars Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3] The film was scheduled to be released on October 7, 2016, by Entertainment One.

Plot

The film follows the lives of Roman and Lucy, two people living difficult lives in a small, frozen town of Apex, Nunavut, Canada.[4] They are in love, but Lucy tells Roman that she must leave as a stalker has followed her. Roman tells her that he cannot leave and go south again, because of dark things in his own past. He tries to get her to go without him, and is even pushed to the brink of suicide. Eventually, he knows that he must go with her.

Roman can talk to bears which only he, it seems, can hear talking back, and a polar bear who talks to him about life makes several appearances in the story. On their snowmobile journey south, they are warned of a blizzard, but seek shelter in an abandoned military base instead of going back. Lucy comes to believe that her stalker has followed them there. It is then revealed that the stalker is in her mind, her dead abusive father. Roman burns the military base in order to prove that her father is now dead forever and can no longer follow her.

Seeking shelter in a snow cave, Roman and Lucy talk about a herd of caribou that they had found frozen in a lake earlier in their journey. They compare their lives to these animals, being led on a path and unable get off, and all being drowned. As the lovers begin to succumb to the intense temperature, the bear appears again, revealing that he is God and promising to Roman that he and Lucy will see each other again. The final scene shows the lovers' now dead, frozen bodies being cut out of the snow and lifted away by a helicopter.

Cast

Development

The film was first announced on March 18, 2015. TF1 International have acquired the worldwide distribution rights.[5]

Filming

Filming began on March 17, 2015.[6] Images were released from the set on May 25, 2015.[7] The film's budget is $8.2 million. The filmmakers asked Iqaluit City Council to turn off street lights whilst they were filming because they did not want the orange hue that they gave off, instead wanting their own brighter, whiter lights. This involved manually disconnecting each lampost.[8] Scenes with the bear were filmed in Porcupine, Ontario (northern Ontario near Timmins).

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2016.[2][3] The film went onto screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2016.[9] Shortly after, 20th Century Fox and Netflix acquired U.S distribution rights to the film, making it the first Canadian film to be released by a major film studio since Splice.[10] The film is scheduled to be released in Canada on October 7, 2016.[11] Executive producer Jeff Sackman told Playback Daily that Fox is targeting a Valentine’s Day 2017 release, though he offered no further details on when the film would be made available on Netflix.[12] The U.S release date was changed to December 16, 2016 in order to qualify for the Oscars.

Reception

Critical response

The film received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 86% based on 22 reviews.[13]

American Critics

Sheri Linden in the Los Angeles Times calls the film "thrillingly cinematic", however, notes that not all of the plot lines work equally, and the conversations between Roman and Lucy may be more important than the plot lines.[14]

Christy Lemire from RogerEbert.com said the film was "Beautiful and thoroughly unpredictable; you never know where Nguyen is going with this story, including the chilling, sci-fi/horror direction he heads in toward the film's climax."[15]

Glenn Kenny of The New York Times was quoted as saying the film has "Beauty", but noted that it had an "overheated romanticism".[16]

Canadian critics

Liz Braun of the Toronto Sun said "There's a surreal quality to Two Lovers and a Bear that gets underlined by the appearance of the Ursus maritimus of the title; DeHaan has called the movie an adult fairy tale, and that's an apt description."[17]

Simon Houpt from Globe and Mail wrote "Viewers have two choices: Give yourself over to the experience, and you'll be transported; stand back, and you'll feel nothing but chill."[18]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref(s)
Canadian Screen Awards 12 March 2017 Best Art Direction / Production Design Emmanuel Fréchette Won [19]
Best Editing Richard Comeau Won
Best Make-Up Kathryn Casault Nominated [20]
Best Score Jesse Zubot Nominated
Prix Iris 4 June 2017 Best Film Roger Frappier Nominated [21][22]
Best Director Kim Nguyen Nominated
Best Script Kim Nguyen Nominated
Best Actress Tatiana Maslany Nominated
Best Actor Dane DeHaan Nominated
Revelation of the Year Kakki Peter Nominated
Best Casting Lucie Robitaille and Heidi Levitt Nominated
Best Cinematography Nicolas Bolduc Nominated
Best Sound Claude Beaugrand, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, and Claude La Haye Won
Best Editing Richard Comeau Won
Best Visual Effects Daniel Lavoie and André Montambeault Nominated
Most Successful Film Outside Quebec Kim Nguyen Nominated
Writers Guild of Canada 24 April 2017 WGC Award Kim Nguyen Nominated [23]
Directors Guild of Canada October 28, 2017 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Kim Nguyen Nominated [24]

References

  1. ^ "Two Lovers and a Bear". canada-cannes2014.ca. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Fortnight 2016: The 48th Directors' Fortnight Selection". Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b Nancy Tartaglione (19 April 2016). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight 2016 Lineup – Laura Poitras' 'Risk', Pablo Larrain's 'Neruda', Paul Schrader's 'Dog Eat Dog'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  4. ^ Debruge, Peter (18 May 2016). "Cannes Film Review: 'Two Lovers and a Bear'". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  5. ^ Etan Vlessing (18 March 2015). "Dane DeHaan, Tatiana Maslany to Star in Indie 'Two Lovers and a Bear'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  6. ^ Anne Thompson (17 March 2015). "'Two Lovers and a Bear,' Starring DeHaan and Maslany, Hea - Thompson on Hollywood". Thompson on Hollywood. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Two lovers and a Bear on set". Simply Dane DeHaan. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Two Lovers and a Bear producers ask to turn out the lights in Iqaluit". 14 March 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Two Lovers and a Bear". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  10. ^ McNary, Dave (September 14, 2016). "Toronto: Dane DeHaan-Tatiana Maslany's 'Two Lovers and a Bear' Sold to Fox, Netflix". Variety. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  11. ^ "TATIANA MASLANY AND DANE DEHAAN STAR IN TWO LOVERS AND A BEAR, OPENING ON OCTOBER 7". Entertainment One. August 2, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  12. ^ "TIFF '16: Two Lovers and a Bear gets U.S. distribution". Playback. September 15, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  13. ^ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/two_lovers_and_a_bear/
  14. ^ Linden, Sheri (5 January 2017). "Review: 'Two Lovers and a Bear' is a cinematically thrilling drama with hits and misses". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  15. ^ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/two-lovers-and-a-bear-2016
  16. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/movies/two-lovers-and-a-bear-review.html?_r=0
  17. ^ http://torontosun.com/2016/10/07/two-lovers-and-a-bear-review-tatiana-maslany-and-dane-dehaan-melt-hearts/wcm/23ce7939-98a8-42eb-bf22-844324e1a703
  18. ^ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/two-lovers-and-a-bear-fuses-a-tale-of-young-lovers-with-northern-mythology/article32276168/
  19. ^ "Juste la fin du monde remporte six prix aux Écrans canadiens". La Presse. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  20. ^ Furdyk, Brent (17 January 2017). "2017 Canadian Screen Awards nominees revealed". Global News. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  21. ^ Boutros, Magdaline (5 April 2017). "Gala Québec cinéma: Juste la fin du monde et Two Lovers and a Bear en tête". La Presse. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  22. ^ The Canadian Press (1 June 2017). "Gala des artisans Québec Cinéma: Juste La Fin du monde obtient trois prix Iris". La Presse. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  23. ^ Pinto, Jordan (1 March 2017). "Maudie, Two Lovers and a Bear, ARQ up for WGC awards". Playback. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  24. ^ "2017 DIRECTORS GUILD OF CANADA AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED » Directors Guild of Canada". www.dgc.ca. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
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