The Seagull

The Story

An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

Rating

M

Duration

98 min

Cast

Glenn Fleshler, Corey Stoll, Michael Zegen, Elisabeth Moss, Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney

Director

Michael Mayer