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Evening

Original poster
Directed by Lajos Koltai
Produced by Jeff Sharp
Written by Susan Minot
Michael Cunningham
Starring Vanessa Redgrave
Claire Danes
Toni Collette
Natasha Richardson
Patrick Wilson
Hugh Dancy
Meryl Streep
Music by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Cinematography Gyula Pados
Editing by Allyson C. Lajos Koltai, ASC HSC Jeffrey "Jeff" Sharp is one of New York's most prominent independent film producers. Susan Minot Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American Writer, best known for his 1998 Novel The Hours Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January, 1937) is an English Academy Award, two-time Cannes Best Actress, Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award -winning and Emmy Award -nominated American Film Antonia "Toni" Collette (born 1 November 1972 is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -nominated Australian actress and Musician Natasha Jane Richardson (born May 11, 1963) is an English actress known for her performances on stage and in Feature films She Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3 1973) is a Tony - Emmy - and Golden Globe -nominated American Theater and Hugh Dancy (born June 19 1975) is an English Actor. Biography Early life Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an award-winning American Actress who has worked in Theatre, Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek (born April 29, 1953 in Konin, Poland) is a Polish Academy Award-winning Composer. Johnson
Distributed by Focus Features
Release date(s) June 29, 2007 Flag of the United States United States
September 21, 2007 Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language English
IMDb profile

Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal 's Universal The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States 2007 saw major releases such as The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure Book of Secrets, The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A drama film is a Film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes Lajos Koltai, ASC HSC The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Minot. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Susan Minot Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American Writer, best known for his 1998 Novel The Hours

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Plot synopsis

The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance and restless Nina, wondering if their mother is delusional.

As a young woman in her early twenties, cabaret singer Ann arrives at the spacious Newport, Rhode Island home of her best friend Lila Wittenborn, who is on the verge of getting married. Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring Comedy, Song, Dance, and Theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue &mdash a Restaurant Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km south of Providence Lila's brother (and Ann's college friend) Buddy introduces her to Harris Arden, the son of a former family servant. Buddy tells Ann his sister always has adored Harris, and expresses his concern that she's marrying another man out of a sense of duty rather than love. Inebriated, Buddy passes out, and as Ann and Harris chat they find themselves bonding.

On Lila's wedding day, she confesses to Ann she confronted Harris with her feelings for him and he rebuffed her, so she goes along with the ceremony as planned. At the reception, at Lila's request, Ann sings a song and is joined on stage by Harris. Afterwards Buddy, drunk again, confronts the two about their growing closeness and kisses Harris. As Lila prepares to depart with her new husband, Ann offers to take the bride away with her, but Lila refuses and leaves for her honeymoon.

Buddy admits to Ann he's had a crush on Harris since they were young but is certain his family never would accept his bisexuality. Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of both sexes or to a bisexual orientation He also confesses he has loved Ann ever since their college days, offering as proof a note she once sent him he has kept in his pocket ever since. Ann later expresses her anger at him for repressing his sexual orientation by building her up as his true love. She and Harris slip off to his secret hideaway, where the two make love.

Buddy, in search of the couple, stumbles into the road and is hit by a car. His friends find him, but too late to save his life. The following morning, Ann and Harris, oblivious to what transpired the night before, jokingly consider sailing away, but at the Wittenborn house they hear the tragic news.

In the present day, Lila arrives at Ann's bedside to comfort her and reminisce. Ann recalls a day when she ran into Harris in the street in New York City. The City of New York By then, she was a wedding singer, unhappily married with two young daughters, on the verge of moving to Los Angeles, and he was married with a son. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He intimated he still loved her before the two exchanged cordial goodbyes.

As Lila leaves, she tells Nina about Harris and reassures her that her mother did not make any mistakes in her life. Nina sits with Ann, who encourages her daughter to have a happy life. Nina finally musters up the courage to tell her boyfriend Luc she is pregnant with their child. An ecstatic Luc proudly announces the news to Constance and promises he always will be there for Nina. Their joy is interrupted by Ann's nurse, who urges the women to rush to their mother's bedside to bid her farewell.

Production notes

The original screenplay, as was the novel, was set in Maine, but according to the commentary on the DVD release of the film, director Lajos Koltai was so taken with the Newport house found by his location scouts he opted to change the setting. The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean Tiverton and Providence, Rhode Island, Greenwich Village, and the Upper West Side of Manhattan also were used for external scenes. Tiverton is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York

The song "Time After Time" Ann sings for Lila at the wedding was written in 1947 by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. " Time after Time " is a Jazz standard written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. Sammy Cahn ( June 18, 1913 &ndash January 15, 1993) was a 4-time Academy Award -winning American lyricist songwriter Jule Styne ( December 31, 1905 &ndash September 20, 1994) was a British -born American Songwriter especially The song "I See the Moon" she later sings to her daughters is based on a traditional nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional Song or Poem taught to young children originally in the nursery.

The film grossed $12,406,646 in the US and $478,928 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $12,885,574 [1].

Principal cast

The 1950s

The Present

Additional production credits

Critical reception

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times said, "Stuffed with actors of variable talent, burdened with false, labored dialogue and distinguished by a florid visual style better suited to fairy tales and greeting cards, this miscalculation underlines what can happen when certain literary works meet the bottom line of the movies. Ann Roth (born October 30, 1931) is a prolific Academy Award -winning American Costume Designer for Films and It also proves that not every book deserves its own film. " [2]

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle observed, "The film arrives at a pessimistic and almost nihilistic view of life as something not very important - and then invites us to take strength and comfort in the notion. The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American Film critic currently writing for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author It's not what you'd expect, and it's certainly not the typical message. It might be the most interesting thing about the picture. " [3]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film 2½ out of a possible four stars and commented, "the actors . This is about the film critic For the singing colleague of Mary Travers see Peter Yarrow. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published . . provide flashes of brilliance. Hugh Dancy scores as the plot's catalyst for tragedy. And Claire Danes is stellar as the young Ann . . . [Mamie] Gummer proves her talent is her own in a star-is-born performance that signals an exceptional career ahead. " [4]

In the St. Petersburg Times, Steve Persall graded the film C and added, "Strong performances and an author's weak backbone make Evening a curious mistake . The St Petersburg Times is a daily Newspaper based in St Petersburg Florida, that serves the larger Tampa Bay area . . [it] is memorable only for lovely period designs and for casting mothers and daughters to ensure better continuity. " [5]

Justin Chang of Variety said, "The more immediate problem with this ambitious, elliptical film is Koltai and editor Allyson C. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman Johnson's difficulty in establishing a narrative rhythm, as the back-and-forth shifts in time that seemed delicately free-associative on the page are rendered with considerably less grace onscreen. In ways reminiscent of Stephen Daldry's film of The Hours, the telling connections between past and present feel calculated rather than authentically illuminating. Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born May 2 1961) is an English theatre- and Film director and producer. The Hours is a 2002 Film based on Michael Cunningham 's 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award -winning 1998 novel " [6]

In Time, Richard Shickel said the film "represents perhaps the greatest diva round-up in modern movie history . Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and . . Wow, you might think, how bad can that be? To which one responds, after two lugubrious hours in their company, really awful. Rarely have so many gifted women labored so tastefully to bring forth such a wee, lockjawed mouse . . . This may in part because it was Michael Cunningham, author of the book The Hours, another stupefying exercise in unspoken angst, who was hired to punch up the script Susan Minot was trying to make out of her novel. Angst is a German word for Fear or Anxiety. ( Anguish is its almost entirely synonymous Latinate equivalent They share screenplay credit for Evening, but even in the press kit you can sense her loathing for his work. He's sort of Henry James without the cojones and definitely the most constipated sensibility the literary community has lately been in awe of. Henry James, OM ( –) son of theologian Henry James Sr, brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James Cojones ko'xones is a vulgar Spanish word for Testicles corresponding to "balls" or " Bollocks " But I suspect that the director, Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian, has even more to do with the film's inertness. " [7]

References

  1. ^ Evening at TheNumbers.com
  2. ^ New York Times review
  3. ^ San Francisco Chronicle review
  4. ^ Rolling Stone review
  5. ^ St. Petersburg Times review
  6. ^ Variety review
  7. ^ Time review

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