Days and Nights

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.

For other uses, see Days and Nights (disambiguation).
Days and Nights
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChristian Camargo
Produced byBarbara Romer
Juliet Rylance
Written byChristian Camargo
StarringJean Reno
Katie Holmes
William Hurt
Christian Camargo
Cherry Jones
Russell Means
Michael Nyqvist
Allison Janney
Juliet Rylance
Mark Rylance
Ben Whishaw
Music byClaire van Kampen
CinematographySteve Cosens
Edited byRon Dulin
Sarah Flack
Production
company
Art Cine
Distributed byIFC Films
Release date
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$13,243

Cast

Reception

As of June 2020, Days and Nights 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 4.11/10.[1]

Ken Rudolph recognized that the actors were splendid, but the film seemed trite, and pretentious.[2] The film critic Thorsten Krüger considers that Camargo "has nothing to tell and nothing to say." [3] 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."[4]

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."[5]

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." [6]

gollark: It's probably harder to accidentally miswrite stuff like that now we have computerized records and automatic spellcheck.
gollark: This clearly vindicates me never* going outside, which has no other detrimental consequences.
gollark: I can't actually do regular pullups. Maybe I should not not do that somehow.
gollark: Work out while in class/flying, as a "power move".
gollark: It would be like trying to reverse-engineer a program by counting the number of zeros in the CPU's registers while it's running, or something.

References
  1. "Days and Nights (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  2. "Days and Nights (2014)".
  3. Krüger, Thorsten (7 July 2014). "Days and Nights".
  4. Nehme, Farran Smith (24 September 2014). "'Days and Nights' suffers from dialogue despite bevy of talent".
  5. Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine Palm Springs International Film Festival
  6. "A Chekhovian Bird of a Different Feather". The New York Times. 26 September 2014.
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