 | Robert R. |
5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
You must invest yourself to appreciate the beauty of this film. The assembly of actors is amazing. Vanessa Redgrave and real-life daughter Natasha Richardson, AND Meryl Streep and real-life daughter Mamie Gummer, Claire Danes (who's singing voice is almost as near-perfect as Karen Carpenter's), Glenn Close who's small part adds punctuation at exactly the right time. This wasn't a mother-daughter gimmick. That fact is seemless. Focus early on identifying characters because the film is structured with back and forth flashbacks. The story is touching, affecting, and uplifting. Sets, locations, music, scenery, costumes -ALL first-rate. Patrick Wilson and Hugh Dancy round out a finely tuned cast. There are beautiful subtleties and symbolisms. The Special Features will validate those. Again, you need to set your mind to watching with attention and the return is rewarding. This isn't a 60-minute dime-novel flick.
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 | Richard S. |
2 out of 8 people found this review helpful
If you ever forget how critical the screenplay and director are to the success of a movie, look at Evening. A combination of lackluster (Vanessa Redgrave and nearly everyone else) and over-the-top (Glenn Close) performances from people who know how to act means that there was no one in charge here. A total waste of time!!
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