Evening (2007)

My Review

“Evening” is a drama film about a dying woman reminiscing through old memories with her two daughters in attendance. Director Lajos Koltai put together a movie with beautiful scenery and great cinematography, but with unfocused direction and sluggish, slow-moving dialogue from a terrible screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham. It was adapted from Minot’s 1988 novel of the same name. As a result of less than desirable management, “Evening” is one gigantic bore with big name actors whose talents are wasted on this nonsense.

Some of the stars do provide flashes of brilliance here and there. They include Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Barry Bostwick, David Call, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The sun long ago set on “Evening” which was a box office bomb for Hart Sharp Entertainment, Twins Financing, and Focus Features.