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Three Days of Rain (2002)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:4
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.3/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 30, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Three Days of Rain is a compelling and humorous feature film inspired by six short stories from the great, 19th century Russian writer, Anton Chekhov. Writer and director Michael Meredith... Three Days of Rain is a compelling and humorous feature film inspired by six short stories from the great, 19th century Russian writer, Anton Chekhov. Writer and director Michael Meredith skillfully interweaves and adapts Chekhov's masterpieces to tell the stories of a handful of ordinary residents in Cleveland, Ohio. The challenges life throws at them become even more difficult as they grapple with a three-day rainstorm. --© Official Site [More]
Starring: Peter Falk, Don Meredith, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari
Starring: Peter Falk, Don Meredith, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett, Penelope Allen, Blythe Danner, Robert Carradine
Studio: Rogue Arts
Reviews for Three Days of Rain
The real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced.
The ends of each story work beautifully, but getting there requires traveling some washed-out roads, despite the imprimatur of executive producer Wim Wenders.
As a filmmaker, Meredith has a strong, if derivative, visual sense, although his screenplay is packed with too many clichés and familiar riffs.
A hypnotic mood piece -- where characters’ blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes).
In the genre of interlocking stories about lonely lives, Three Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, which continues to grow in my memory.
Rain strives for a Magnolia-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs.
Meredith has created a mood piece that avoids self-indulgence as it explores the self-indulgent nature of a handful of diverse people, caught up in the major and minor miseries of life's foolish ironies and genuine woes.
Inspired by Chekhov's short stories, Three Days of Rain belongs to the now-familiar genre of overlapping tales of urban desperation.
It's simply a pleasure watching these seasoned pros, a collection of recognizable faces, if not exactly household names, massage these characters and bring them and their stories to life.
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