Evening

Not painful to watch at all!

I think Evening is highly underrated. First of all, it's pretty easy on the eyes: with such remarkable art direction and cinematography. The scenery was so beautiful, the houses, the landsacapes and also the costume design and the make up. And how it went from past to present on and on, very well achieved effect. And such stellar performances! Claire Danes, Patrick Wilson, Glenn Close, Hugh Dancy, Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson... You can't really take trash about it.

The problem with this film is that the characters are quite one-dimensional and stereotyped, luckily, with such an amazing cast, that didn't bother me so much because they really could pull it off nicely. And as a matter of fact, it's not about the characters, but the story, which was so powerful and emotional and full of content and meaning, fluently led by the actors (which were all so great I wouldn't have space to describe each one separately).

Really worth watching.