Evening unites a stellar cast, and is
based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for
the screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Michael Cunningham (The Hours), under the direction of Lajos
Koltai (Fateless), who was previously an Academy
Award-nominated cinematographer.
Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the
timeless love which binds mother and daughter – seen through
the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism,
navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs
of real-life mothers and daughters – Vanessa Redgrave and
Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer –
portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter and the
mother’s best friend at different stages in life.
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord (Ms. Redgrave)
reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters;
Constance (Ms. Richardson), a content wife and mother, and
Nina (Toni Collette), a restless single woman. Both are
bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than
any other.
But who is this “Harris,” wonder her daughters, and what is
he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock
of Ann’s life and their own lives, their mother is tended to
by a night nurse (Eileen Atkins) as she journeys in her mind
back to a summer weekend some fifty years ago, when she was
Ann Grant (Claire Danes)…
…a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of
honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest
friend from college, Lila Wittenborn (Ms. Gummer). The
bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor
rather than her own mother (Glenn Close) for support. Ann
stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila’s
irrepressible brother Buddy (Hugh Dancy).
Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest
Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson), a lifelong friend and
intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann’s love for Harris
will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.
©2007
Focus Features. All rights reserved.
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Evening
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Mary Racel |
0 |
Embarrassingly bad. I shuddered through
all almost-2 hrs. of it.
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gwelch |
none |
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I enjoyed this movie. The sets were
beautiful, the acting was excellent, and
the time periods were visually dreamy
and accurate. The lackof actual singers
of songs of the day were disappointing;
however, Miss Danes' lovely voice was a
great surprise to me. I must say: Miss
Redgrave could have been replaced by any
of a number of fine actresses of her
age. I cannot understand her perpetually
insipid smile that she wears in every
movie for every emotion. What does it
mean? |
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