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August Evening
Maya Entertainment
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
Starring
Pedro Castaneda,
and
Veronica Loren
August Evening follows an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval. Lupe is more of a daughter to Jaime than his own children, and the two try to stick together… but change is inevitable. At the heart of the story is the conflict between generations. Aging parents and grown children have difficulty expressing both their love and mutual disappointment in each other. A father recognizes the unstoppable force of time and must say goodbye to his daughter so she can start her own life. (Maya Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Chris Eska
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Chris Eska
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: September 5, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
127 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish |
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89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
This quiet, contemplative gem of a film paints a painfully accurate portrait of familial love, loss, and healing-by-degrees among the migrant communities bordering San Antonio.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The filmmaker of August Evening creates a succession of quiet, elliptical scenes that accrue into an affecting big picture of family ties and immigrant experience.
80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The heart of the movie is not in its plot but in its characters and atmosphere. Castaneda, a nonprofessional actor who runs a towing company in San Antonio, gives a towering, Robert Duvall-style performance as a granitic man in late middle age whose internal world of pain and love and knowledge occasionally flickers to the surface.
75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Pedro Castaneda, a nonprofessional appearing in his first film, and Veronica Loren tug at your heartstrings with their portrayals of the lead characters.
75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
August Evening is rambling, diffuse, and at times so "sensitive" it makes your teeth hurt. And yet it's also intermittently quite affecting.
70
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Though this artful film inches toward its not-unpredictable conclusion and could logically have ended several times before its final fadeout, I was sorry when it was over. How rare is that?
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Eska seems to be attempting an ambitious Mexican-American variation on "King Lear," another tale of an aging patriarch seeking refuge but ultimately rejected by ungrateful children.
70
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Perhaps Eska didn't have to write all of his characters into overlapping crossroads of crisis, but he's more nuanced than overt, and his cast (especially Loren and the nonprofessional Castaneda) sells it.
67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Sam Adams
The unforced ease of the performances make August Evening an intermittent pleasure, but its images aren't strong enough to sustain its undisciplined length.
50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A film of noble intentions that eventually wears out its welcome.
40
Variety
Robert Koehler
Although guided by considerable empathy toward its small circle of kinfolk eking out a living in southern Texas, Eska's tale of a woman's unconditional support of her father-in-law is told with a faux-poetic sensibility that never really connects with his characters' lives.
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