Days and Nights is writer / director Christian Camargo’s directorial debut, inspired by Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and set in rural New England in the 1980s. The film centers around Elizabeth (Allison Janney), a movie star, who brings her paramour Peter to her lakeside estate to visit her family on Memorial Day weekend.
The household includes her ailing brother (William Hurt), her artist son (Ben Whishaw), his ethereal muse (Juliet Rylance), the family doctor (Jean Reno) and the estate’s custodian (Russell Means), the careless caretaker (Michael Nyqvist) and his wife (Cherry Jones), their temperamental daughter (Katie Holmes) and her long suffering ornithologist husband (Mark Rylance) — the keeper of the sacred land where a bald eagle is trying to raise its young. During the weekend a disastrous turn of events leads the family from dysfunction to heartbreak and, ultimately, salvation.
Days and Nights is an American drama film directed and written by Christian Camargo. The film is inspired by The Seagull by Anton Chekhov and set in rural New England in the 1980s. As part of a special tribute in honor of the actor and activist Russell Means, who died 2012, the film had a special screening at the Denver Film Festival on November 8, 2013.
Days and Nights showed at the 25th Anniversary Palm Springs International Film Festival at the Annenberg Theatre on January 4, 2014. It had its premiere in the United States on September 26, 2014.
Days and Nights
Directed by: Christian Camargo
Starring: Katie Holmes, Christian Camargo, William Hurt, Allison Janney, Cherry Jones, Russell Means, Michael Nyqvist, Jean Reno, Juliet Rylance, Mark Rylance, Ben Whishaw
Screenplay by: Christian Camargo
Production Design by: Tommaso Ortino
Cinematography by: Steve Cosens
Film Editing by: Ron Dulin, Sarah Flack
Costume Design by: Anna Terrazas
Set Decoration by: Philippa Culpepper
Art Direction by: Laura Miller
Music by: Claire van Kampen
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: IFC Films
Release Date: September 26, 2014
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