IMDb plot summary: An aging actress named Irina Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, and David Warner.
I've never quite gotten into the swing of things with Chekhov's plays. I find his individual scenes compelling and intriguing but fail to track their connection to each other in a complete arc. This production falls very much in that camp for me as well. There are some really fascinating moments and scenes -- this is an actor's scene study dream come true -- but it somehow doesn't all pull together for me the way I wish it would.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Sea Gull > The Crazies (2010)
The Sea Gull < Hoodwinked!
The Sea Gull > My Date With Drew
The Sea Gull < Tekkonkinkreet
The Sea Gull < Nothing in Common
The Sea Gull < The Hateful Eight
The Sea Gull < Anna and the King
The Sea Gull < The Horse's Mouth
The Sea Gull > The Wedding Singer
The Sea Gull > The Hidden Fortress
The Sea Gull < The Three Musketeers (1993)
Final spot: #1160 out of 3119.
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