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Nights and Weekends (2008)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 30, 1999 Limited
Synopsis: It's telling that the two acts of this modest and claustrophobic film are set in Chicago and New York respectively, and yet viewers are barely given a glimpse of either city: the main characters,... [More]
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Alison Bagnall, Elizabeth Donius
Director: Joe Swanberg, Greta Gerwig
Reviews for Nights and Weekends
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 3.5/5 |
Feels entirely true and real. Full Review |
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Its surprisingly structured depiction of this relationship and its many private rituals and performances, which the film's unforgiving style continually strips bare Full Review |
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8/10 |
In brief scenes, lovely or tense, mostly unresolved, Nights and Weekends indicates a slow, almost imperceptible evolution in the relationship. Full Review |
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B+ |
Swanberg and Gerwig also have a gift for constructing the kind of moments rarely seen in contemporary American independent film. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This movie belongs to its stars, who also wrote and produced. You can't say their acting is good or bad because they are not really acting. They're just being themselves, pubic hair and all. Full Review |
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3/5 |
One imagines the film is making a gentle attempt to be a modern Scenes from a Marriage, and while that's a tall order, Gerwig and Swanberg aren't terribly far from the mark. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Night and Weekends simultaneously plays like a critique of the mumblecore ethos and an especially obnoxious example of its whimsical tics and insouciant solipsism.
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4/5 |
Directors Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig fill the screen with many magical moments of intimacy in a relationship that is going through a rough patch. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A frequent-flyer drama examining 21st Century mating habits. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
At last, the confessional style actually confesses a legitimate sense of longing and doubt, and the mundane no longer feels so ordinary. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
I can't recall a film with as much character insight as this one; not necessarily character development, but insight. Full Review |
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 3/6 |
The movie’s attempt to become a Scenes from a Marriage for the SXSW set often comes within millimeters of self-parody. Full Review |
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These kids fear tripods like most twentysomethings fear neckties. Full Review |
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Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig nail the everyday rhythms of stuttering indecision. Full Review |
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It’s at times bold, intimate, unfunny, and discomforting, but it is never anything less than sincere. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Nights and Weekends marks writer-director Joe Swanberg's fourth consecutive film at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and it's quite possibly his strongest work yet. Full Review |
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there's poetry -- not to mention a fair dose of comedy -- in the mix. Full Review |
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