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Evening
2007
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets. Read more
| Starring | Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson |
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| Director | Lajos Koltai |
| Genres | Drama |
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Evening
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets.
| Starring | Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Eileen Atkins |
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| Director | Lajos Koltai |
| Studio | ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 57 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Feb 2008 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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Lajos Koltais overreaching, emotionally detached adaptation of Susan Minots novel about New England bluebloods... read more on Time Out
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29 out of 34 people found this review helpful
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Studied, rather than exciting.
Taken from a bestseller, this is a studied, rather than exciting film. As an elderly mothers life begins to wane, her memories take over on her deathbed and through murmours and dream talk, she imparts details about her young life to her daughters that they knew nothing abot previosuly. This has the effect of answering some of the daughters unanswered questions from their youth, as well as impacting their decisions on the current state of their lives. This is a superbly acted film, and the talent present portrays the subject superbly. The downside, is that it is a tad ponderous and overlong for some, and it might not hold your attention for the whole 117 minutes.
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Beautiful but could have been better
I found this film very moving, particularly thanks to the strong acting of Toni Collette, Mamie Gummel and Vanessa Redgrave. I think the film suffers from being overpopulated with famous actors, even the fabulous Meryl Streep who seemed merely to make an almost cameo appearance. I didn't quite find the central love story believable as it seemed to happen in an instant. Claire Danes is delightful in the main role but I was put off by how little she and Redgrave resembled each other given that they were playing the same character at different ages. I felt the issues examined in the film were merely touched on and resolved in quite a cliched way but many of the scenes involving Redgrave's aged Ann Grant were beautiful and had me weeping.
Definately worth seeing - have the tissues ready and enjoy stepping back into the Ivy league NE seaboard of the 1950s.
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- jslorr from Glasgow
- Posted 29 Aug 2008 19:36
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Evening
- 19 Sep 2007
It's been a while since a single movie mustered a roster of actresses like this (in order of seniority): Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Claire Danes, and Mamie Gummer. I suppose the closest challenger I can think of would be The Hours. Coincidentally, or not, novelist Michael Cunningham is responsible for the screenplay here, based on Susan Minot's best-seller. Ironically, while Evening affects an even split between then and now,... Read more
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