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The narrative beats are heavy, reaction shots abound, and wordless discursions are numerous.
Above all, MayersThe Seagullis a platform for several definitive performances.
makes my blood boil every time.
But Bening makes her damnably human.
How deluded she remains about her miserliness in the realms of both money and mother love.
No wonder Treplev has a Hamlet complex.
Mayer and Karams swift pacing brings out Chekhovs farcical underpinnings.
The actors are all you could wish for and Moss is something more.
Swilling vodka more and more openly, she gives Masha a tragic awareness and a hint of the demonic.
As Arkadinas elderly brother, Sorin, Brian Dennehy is merely perfect.
He has the serenity and morbid humor of a man who knows hes on his way out.
The role is admittedly a killer.
The exception was Carey Mulligan, who evoked the tragedy of a woman simultaneously opened up and destroyed.
They eliminate the last words of the play, now redundant.
The unforgivable: repeating, in voice-over, a line from Treplevs allegorical play.
It works, as cheap tricks can.
Id settle for his removing the line.
