After filming in the fall of 2012, it seems like we’ve been hearing about The Two Faces of January for some time, but following its Berlin premiere earlier this year, it will finally be arriving in theaters around two years after it shot. Don’t let the delay dissuade, either, as it seems to have picked up favorable reviews on its current festival run, and today the first U.S. trailer has landed.
The directorial debut of Hossein Amini, the screenwriter behind Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive, the story is centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a police officer. Led by Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac, the source material comes from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr. Ripley and this trailer is a promising one. Check it out below, along with four clips and the U.S. poster, for the film that’ll land in VOD and theaters shortly.
Screenwriter Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Drive) makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962, and adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his young wife Collete (Kirsten Dunst) meet American expat Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a scammer working as a tour guide. Instead of becoming his latest marks, the two befriend him, but a murder at the couple’s hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio’s allegiance is put to the test.
Two Faces of January hits VOD on August 25th and theaters on September 26th.