(l-r) Saoirse Ronan and Corey Stoll in The Seagull. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics ©
Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is great material for a first-rate film. Director Michael Mayer’s screen adaptation of Chekhov’s 1896 play is a visually lovely production with a top-tier cast with wonderful locations, sets and costumes. “The Seagull”was the first of Chekhov’s four great plays, a work full of human meaning, and one of the great classics of literature. Sadly, “great classic” does not describe this film.
Michael Mayer’s The Seagull is not so much a bad film as a deeply disappointing one. It should have been a great film – it has all the lavish trappings of a great film, fabulous cast included, yet it is a hollow shell, all surface with little underneath. The problem seems to be two-fold. First, Stephen Karam’s script does violence to Chekhov’s work,...
Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is great material for a first-rate film. Director Michael Mayer’s screen adaptation of Chekhov’s 1896 play is a visually lovely production with a top-tier cast with wonderful locations, sets and costumes. “The Seagull”was the first of Chekhov’s four great plays, a work full of human meaning, and one of the great classics of literature. Sadly, “great classic” does not describe this film.
Michael Mayer’s The Seagull is not so much a bad film as a deeply disappointing one. It should have been a great film – it has all the lavish trappings of a great film, fabulous cast included, yet it is a hollow shell, all surface with little underneath. The problem seems to be two-fold. First, Stephen Karam’s script does violence to Chekhov’s work,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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