CANNES, May 25: America’s immigration debate finds echos in a period drama that premiered at the Cannes film festival yesterday about a Polish woman who arrives at Ellis Island and fights to survive in 1920s New York. “The Immigrant” features French Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as the immigrant Ewa, speaking English and Polish in the film, with Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner as the two men with whom she becomes entangled as she is forced into prostitution. (agencies)
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