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Evening

2007

Lajos Koltai

Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson ...

5.6

1,489

Romance. Drama A dying woman reflects on the time in her youth when she met the love of her life as her two daughters wrestle with their mother's impending death and their own personal issues. Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life mothers and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The film disintegrates into an indulgent succession of intense, fawning exchanges that overwhelm Minot’s thin and monotonous tale (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Susan Minot's resplendent novel (...) stumbles on its way to the screen (...) [Koltai] pushes emotions that need to flow. But the actors (...) provide flashes of brilliance (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Stuffed with actors of variable talent, burdened with false, labored dialogue and distinguished by a florid visual style better suited to fairy tales and greeting cards (...) [It proves] that not every book deserves its own film"	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"We must be grateful to any film with such glorious actresses still at the top of their game"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"It's the sort of thing that gives sensitivity a bad name and is infinitely inferior to the not dissimilar 'The Bridges of Madison County'"	NEG

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