With the movie The Two Faces Of January, screenwriter Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Drive) makes a stylish directing debut.
The low budget thriller The Two Faces Of January is set in Greece and Istanbul during 1962, and is adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel of the same name.
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.
