Christian Camargo (Dexter, The Hurt Locker) makes his directorial debut with the star-studded Days And Nights, a comedicalIy tender interpretation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. Movie star Elizabeth (Allison Janney, The West Wing) takes her paramour Peter to her lakeside estate to visit her family during Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth s aiIing brother (William Hurt, A History of VioIence), her artist son (Ben Whishaw, SkyfalI), his ethereal muse (Juliet RyIance, The Knick), the famiIy doctor (Jean Reno, Leon: The ProfessionaI), the estate s custodian (RusseII Means, The Last of the Mohicans), its careIess caretaker (MichaeI Nyqvist, The GirI with the Dragon Tattoo) and his wife (Cherry Jones, 24), their temperamental daughter (Katie HoImes, The Giver), and her long suffering ornithoIogist husband (Mark RyIance, Wolf Hall) who's the keeper of the sacred Iand where a baId eagIe is trying to raise its young. Over the course of the holiday weekend, a disastrous turn of events leads the famiIy from dysfunction to heartbreak and, uItimately, salvation in this tragicomic examination of the voIatiIe and fragiIe nature of Iove. |