- Studio: Focus Features
- Release Date: Jun 29, 2007
- Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
- Summary: 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. (Focus Features)
- Director: Lajos Koltai
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 33
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Mixed: 18 out of 33
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Negative: 6 out of 33
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The film, like the book, is clear-eyed without being clinical, reflective but never maudlin.
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Despite the show-offy cast, it took me a while to warm to these people and their self-consciously idyllic settings--as well as to the slick direction of former cinematographer Lajos Koltai--but I was eventually won over.
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60Individual moments are not without their felicitous touches -- mainly due to the cast, which is rich to the point of improbability.
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38There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 8 out of 13
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DanH.10Great Movie, Tense exciting and romantic
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TonyB.7
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MarcK.3
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