Plot
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," set in rural New England in 1984.

Release Year: 2014

Rating: 7.5/10 (86 voted)

Critic's Score: /100

Director: Christian Camargo

Stars: Katie Holmes, William Hurt, Allison Janney

Storyline
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," set in rural New England in 1984.

Cast:
Katie Holmes - Alex
Allison Janney - Elizabeth
Ben Whishaw - Eric
Jean Reno - Louis
William Hurt - Herb
Juliet Rylance - Eva
Michael Nyqvist - Johan
Christian Camargo - Peter
Cherry Jones - Mary
Russell Means - Big Jim
Mark Rylance - Stephen

Country: USA

Language: English

Release Date: 26 September 2014

Filming Locations: Connecticut, USA

Technical Specs

Runtime: 92 min

Trivia:
Meryl Streep has played the role of Irina on Broadway but Cherry Jones was cast for this movie. Interestingly, Jones originated the role of Sister Aloysious in Doubt on Broadway, but Streep was chosen to play her on screen. See more »

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Rating: 7/10

The directorial debut of actor Christian Camargo ("The Hurt Locker") is "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov's classic inspired, but does not convert the Russian tragicomedy from the time and place, but also in content considerably. Mood and senses agree in the fascination of beauty drama groups comedy, the high contrast (night) is photographed, but just sufficiently inconsequential.

"You're not making any sense" and "beautifully boring" - so name the characters themselves their tranquil rural-stage play between Eagle forest and lake shore, a troop depressed Ridiculous, all of which are chosen provided with quirks and idiosyncrasies. There is nothing like an afternoon on a boardwalk with a few screwed-up. But Camargo has almost nothing to say and nothing to say.

So weighty as void Allison Janney ("American Beauty") performs as sarcastic Elizabeth (based on the Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") On the (milder) Gift trace of Meryl Streep from "In August, Osage County" the star cast to. Carmago wants but no process-oriented drama à la "The Celebration", but a film about futility, where time stands still and the measly content evaporates in the low density.

Illustrious names such as William Hurt and Jean Reno as well as younger Ben Whishaw and Katie Holmes to the artificial, ground together to wrest little truthfulness. The melancholic equalized Divertimento suggests profundity, offers his lost peacefulness but too little to interest permanently. A few snappy-cut lines extend this far out.

Nothing-afternoon with a few screwed-up In return Carmago succeed as a video art performance in the woods at night many poetic images and identical music. He little manages to summon casual tragedy, elegance and a plot in parallel montages, so lost is his meditation musing and later in a spiritual turning point in the spirits of the afterlife, which is a bit of Shakespeare and "Much Ado About Nothing" inspired.

If it handle better, only the plot elements of alienation and mutual attraction, the mental emotion of those quirky not only maintain and make their loneliness with each other more effectively and multi- dimensional but could! The symbol of the eagle and the ancient Indians as escort to death are so overweight as null and void in a mood painting of light by Thorsten Krügerabsurden and very aesthetic way.

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