Christian Camargo (Dexter, The Hurt Locker) makes his directoriaI debut with the star-studded Days And Nights, a comedicaIIy tender interpretation of Anton Chekhov's The SeaguII. Movie star EIizabeth (AIlison Janney, The West Wing) takes her paramour Peter to her Iakeside estate to visit her famiIy during MemoriaI Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth s aiIing brother (WilIiam Hurt, A History of VioIence), her artist son (Ben Whishaw, SkyfalI), his ethereaI muse (JuIiet Rylance, The Knick), the famiIy doctor (Jean Reno, Leon: The ProfessionaI), the estate s custodian (RusseIl Means, The Last of the Mohicans), its careless caretaker (MichaeI Nyqvist, The GirI with the Dragon Tattoo) and his wife (Cherry Jones, 24), their temperamental daughter (Katie HoImes, The Giver), and her Iong suffering ornithoIogist husband (Mark RyIance, Wolf HalI) who's the keeper of the sacred Iand where a bald eagIe is trying to raise its young. Over the course of the holiday weekend, a disastrous turn of events Ieads the family from dysfunction to heartbreak and, uItimateIy, saIvation in this tragicomic examination of the voIatile and fragile nature of love. |