Two Lovers And A Bear
The film follows the lives of Roman and Lucy, two people living difficult lives in a small, frozen town in the Arctic circle. However, even the icy expanses of the Arctic offer little refuge from their pasts.
12 July 1930, Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
22 September 1985, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
January 05, 2017
Maslany is adept at playing haunted characters, and her Lucy is no exception. She and Roman build a life together outside of logic and the boundaries of human habitation. They are a match made in a frozen heaven.October 20, 2016
Nguyen has crafted a surprising, touching and deeply resonant love story.December 15, 2016
The beauty and absurdity (things also get harrowing) don't entirely compensate for the overheated romanticism in which the movie is grounded, but they do make "Two Lovers and a Bear" a nearly singular cinematic trek.October 06, 2016
Two Lovers and a Bear is preposterous and too infatuated with itself, but between its appealing leads and a surplus of other pleasures -- the super-crisp imagining of the Nunavut community of Apex, for one -- it's also pretty hard to resist.October 13, 2016
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.December 16, 2016
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.October 07, 2016
Viewers have two choices: Give yourself over to the experience, and you'll be transported; stand back, and you'll feel nothing but chill.December 12, 2016
"I can talk to bears," Roman explains, and that's that, basically.December 15, 2016
Raw, heartfelt, well-acted and exhilarating. A refreshingly unpredictable, imaginative, and un-Hollywood film that has just the right balance of truth and spectacle.September 19, 2016
Kim Nguyen finds raw authenticity in his location, and in the volatile chemistry between his two stars.January 05, 2017
"Two Lovers and a Bear" is above all thrillingly cinematic, even when its elements of lived-in intensity and jokey fantasy refuse to coalesce.October 13, 2016
It's a pleasant place to be if you don't overthink things.