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Days and Nights
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Wikipedia article
'Days and Nights' is a 2013 American drama film directed and written by Christian Camargo. The film is inspired by 'The Seagull' by Anton Chekhov and set in rural New England in the 1980s.
Cast
* Allison Janney - Elizabeth - Movie star
* William Hurt - Herb - Dying brother of Elizabeth
* Ben Whishaw - Eric - Artist - Son of Elizabeth
* Katie Holmes - Alex - Daughter of Elizabeth
* Mark Rylance - Stephen - Ornithologist - Husband of Alex
* Juliet Rylance - Eva - Eric's muse
* Christian Camargo - Peter - Friend of Elizabeth
* Jean Reno - Louis - Family doctor
* Michael Nyqvist - Johan - Caretaker
* Cherry Jones - Mary - Wife of Johan
Reception
, 'Days and Nights' 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 4.11/10.
Ken Rudolph recognized that the actors were splendid, but the film seemed trite, and pretentious. The film critic Thorsten Krger considers that Camargo "has nothing to tell and nothing to say." The film "intends to be profound, but offers too little to be interesting".
"The cast, so packed with talent that Jean Reno and Cherry Jones barely register, is stuck with stagey dialogue. Juliet Rylance, in the Nina part, has a particularly hard time."
The World Cinema Now Program reviewed the film as: "Anton Chekhovs The Seagull has seen numerous iterations over the decades, but actor/director Christian Camargo (The Hurt Locker) is able to honor the darkness and depth of this Russian tragedy while relocating it to a Memorial Day weekend in rural New England and putting his own contemporary spin on the material. With a haunting score, lovely cinematography, and strong performances from a remarkable ensemble cast, we see a family come together then fracture apart over the course of one disastrous weekend."[http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=24827&FID=70] Palm Springs International Film Festival
The New York Times commented that The Seagull,' with its depiction of fin de sicle ennui, has been hollowed out and trivialized. So little time is given to the subsidiary characters in 'Days and Nights' that, at times, the movie barely makes sense. The avian symbol has been changed from a sea gull to a bald eagle. What remains is a cracked shell."
References
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