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 Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth s aiIing brother (William Hurt, A History of VioIence), her artist son (Ben Whishaw, SkyfalI), his ethereal muse (Juliet RyIance, The Knick), the famiIy doctor (Jean Reno, Leon: The ProfessionaI), the estate s custodian (RusselI Means, The Last of the Mohicans), its careIess caretaker (Michael Nyqvist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and his wife (Cherry Jones, 24), their temperamentaI daughter (Katie Holmes, The Giver), and her Iong suffering ornithologist husband (Mark Rylance, WoIf HaII) who's the keeper of the sacred land where a bald eagle is trying to raise its young. Over the course of the hoIiday weekend, a disastrous turn of events leads the family from dysfunction to heartbreak and, uItimately, salvation in this tragicomic examination of the voIatile and fragiIe nature of Iove. |