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In order to visit her old and ill brother, Irina Arkadina, a well known actress, accompanies her lover, Trigorin, a famous novelist, and her son, and go to the country, where their life has been challenged by the power of love, as her son falls in love with a country girl named Nina, who falls in love with Trigorin, to bring terrible for them.
We are left with the sense of a story that has been co-opted into the same accessible, middlebrow terrain that Chekhov was originally reacting against.
Mayer brings a labored hand to the proceedings and can't maximize his dynamite cast or the potential for salaciousness in Chekov's tangled web of characters.
Annette Bening in full flow is always worth one's attention, and a distinguished supporting cast for the most part matches her a large part of the way.
It feels like at times it's attempting to condense the drama...this leads more to the soap-ish end of the spectrum. There's an elliptical quality to the storytelling that I'm not quite sure works this time around.