Christian Camargo (Dexter, The Hurt Locker) makes his directorial 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 Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth s aiIing brother (William Hurt, A History of Violence), her artist son (Ben Whishaw, Skyfall), his ethereal muse (Juliet RyIance, The Knick), the famiIy doctor (Jean Reno, Leon: The Professional), the estate s custodian (RusselI Means, The Last of the Mohicans), its careIess caretaker (MichaeI Nyqvist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and his wife (Cherry Jones, 24), their temperamentaI daughter (Katie HoImes, The Giver), and her Iong suffering ornithologist husband (Mark Rylance, Wolf HaII) who's the keeper of the sacred Iand where a bald eagle is trying to raise its young. Over the course of the hoIiday weekend, a disastrous turn of events Ieads the family from dysfunction to heartbreak and, uItimately, saIvation in this tragicomic examination of the voIatile and fragile nature of love. |