The Seagull is a well - executed screen adaptation of
a Russian classic play.
Not exact matches
In classical tragic format, the
play covers twenty - four hours of drama — and in
classic Russian theatrical style begins with bourgeois jubilation that soon deteriorates into something far more sinister.
The
Russian Oscar committee could actually choose «Leviathan» director Andrey Zvyagintsev's Cannes hit «Loveless» (Sony Pictures
Classics) for its official submission, although Telluride also
played its lower - profile rival, the dark family drama «Tesnota.»
Mere months after her breakout role opposite Chris O'Donnell in «Circle of Friends,» Minnie Driver briefly turned up in «GoldenEye» —
playing Russian gangster Valentin Zukovsky's mistress and unglamorously warbling Tammy Wynette's
classic «Stand By Your Man.»
«The stage is set for a little family drama...» Sony
Classics has debuted the first trailer for the period drama The Seagull, based on the
classic play of the same name by
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.