Days and Nights
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{{Infobox film
| name = Days and Nights
| image = Days and Nights poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Christian Camargo
| producer = Barbara Romer
Juliet Rylance
| writer = Christian Camargo
| starring = Katie Holmes
William Hurt
Allison Janney
Cherry Jones
Michael Nyqvist
Jean Reno
Russell Means
Juliet Rylance
Mark Rylance
Ben Whishaw
| music = Claire van Kampen
| cinematography = Steve Cosens
| editing = Ron Dulin
Sarah Flack
| studio = Art Cine
| distributor = IFC Films
| released = {{Film date|2013|11|08|Denver Film Festival}}
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $13,243
}}
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 Mary and Johan
- 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
- Russell Means - Big Jim
- Cherry Jones - Mary - Wife of Johan
Reception
{{As of|2020|06}}, Days and Nights 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 4.11/10.{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/days_and_nights_2013/|title=Days and Nights (2014)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=June 26, 2020}}
Ken Rudolph recognized that the actors were splendid, but the film seemed trite, and pretentious.{{cite web|url=http://letterboxd.com/film/days-and-nights/|title=Days and Nights (2014)|publisher=}} The film critic Thorsten Krüger considers that Camargo "has nothing to tell and nothing to say." {{cite web|url=http://kommsieh.de/2014/07/07/days-and-nights/|title=Days and Nights|first=Thorsten|last=Krüger|date=7 July 2014|publisher=|access-date=27 September 2014|archive-date=17 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217074058/http://kommsieh.de/2014/07/07/days-and-nights/|url-status=dead}} 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."{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2014/09/24/days-and-nights-suffers-from-dialogue-despite-bevy-of-talent/|title='Days and Nights' suffers from dialogue despite bevy of talent|first=Farran Smith|last=Nehme|date=24 September 2014|publisher=}}
The World Cinema Now Program reviewed the film as: "Anton Chekhov’s 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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102225303/http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=24827&FID=70|date=2014-01-02}} Palm Springs International Film Festival
The New York Times commented that {{" '}}The Seagull,' with its depiction of fin de siècle 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."{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/movies/days-and-nights-an-update-of-chekhovs-the-seagull.html|title=A Chekhovian Bird of a Different Feather|date=26 September 2014|work=The New York Times}}
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References
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External links
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|days_and_nights_2013}}
- {{IMDb title|2359381|Days and Nights}}
Category:Films based on The Seagull
Category:Films set in Connecticut
Category:Films shot in Connecticut
Category:Films set in country houses
Category:2013 directorial debut films