1. DanH.

   10

   Great Movie, Tense exciting and romantic

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2. StephenS

   5

   Susan Minot’s Evening is an outstanding novel by an underrated writer. What’s impressive is the marriage of desperate emotion with cool technique, as dying Ann Lord drifts back to her defining youthful weekend with handsome but irresolute Harris Arden. Minot’s cascading passages cleverly match Ann’s fateful mental descents, drawing out the truth and tragedy of any life not “long enough or wide” for its owner to “know the whole of herself”. Lajos Koltai cannot translate this subtlety, and his Evening arrives as a pleasant postcard from an inconsequential director. Neither is Michael Cunningham (yep, him of The Hours, with Nicole K and her Virginia W proboscis) a sublime choice as Minot’s script collaborator. I don’t understand the gloss that is put on Harris’s rejection of Ann, nor indeed why the brilliant Minot would collaborate with pedestrians like Koltai and Cunningham. It’s only a four, but let’s give it five for Claire Dane’s vivacious turn.… Expand

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3. MarcK.

   3

   Overly pretentious, overwrought, and over-rated. Depending on what you think about Claire Danes, she is either horribly miscast, or deserves the Razzie for worst performance of the year. She is that bad, and the movie is that bad.… Expand

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