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Nights and Weekends

2008

Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg

Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Alison Bagnall, Elizabeth Donius ...

5.5

183

Drama. Romance Mattie and James are in love. But too many mornings and too many miles apart have taken a toll on them. As they struggle with the distance between New York and Chicago, their visits become reminders of the difficulties, not the pleasures, of their relationship. Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig follow HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS with this intimate portrayal of longing and confusion. This time Swanberg co-stars with Gerwig, and Gerwig co-directs ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"The filmmakers are unable to make banality interesting, with the aimless, trivial dialogue less effective in providing insight into the characters than in lulling audience members into a somnolent state"
		Steve Rose The Guardian	"It's a searching, risk-taking kind of film, and even if it doesn't measure up by standard definitions of entertainment, it achieves an undeniable truthfulness"
		Nathan Lee The New York Times	"The problem with the movie is that James and Mattie exhibit little but shallow, infantile neurosis, with next to no hint of a complex — or even legible — inner life."
		Leo Goldsmith IndieWire	"If 'Nights and Weekends' distinguishes itself from other films of its kind (...) it is because of its surprisingly structured depiction of this relationship and its many private rituals and performances"
		Andrew Schenker Slant	"A particularly inept vanity project incapable of holding the interest of anyone besides the filmmakers’ close friends and family (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Noel Murray AV Club	"[Swanberg and Gerwig] have a gift for constructing the kind of moments rarely seen in contemporary American independent film."

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