"August" - family drama
"August" - family drama
The movie "August" was based on the play "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts. The play itself was released in 2007, and has been staged in many theaters around the world. The family drama received a lot of rave reviews from critics, it was called the best Broadway production. The film adaptation of the play deserves no less admiration. The film first appeared on Russian screens in 2014 and undoubtedly attracted the attention of the cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard. By the way, the author of the play, Tracy Letts, initially insisted that the film starred the same actors who participated in the stage production. But contrary to the playwright's wishes, completely different actors were eventually involved in the filming.
"August" is the story of one family and several generations, the story of fathers and children. Violet (Meryl Streep) and Beverly (Sam Shepard) Weston have raised three daughters and educated them. First there was love, then the desire to give the children the best, to be more or less confident in the future, and then, when the children began to live their far from happy lives, they were left alone. She has oral cancer, and the only thing that allows her to survive the constant fever in her mouth and the painful condition she finds herself in is drugs. And he reads books. Their days are a series of quarrels and insults, drawn curtains on the windows, dirt in the house. Beverly, taking final care of her wife, hires a maid, disappears from home, and commits suicide. All family members come to the funeral. Each of them has their own problems and their own pain, their own weaknesses and shortcomings. At the wake table, Meryl Streep's character openly, with venomous sarcasm, ridicules every member of the family. She throws criticism in their face, as if trying to overcome the pain in this way. Accusing her late husband of helplessness and alcoholism, she immediately urges her daughters to honor the memory of someone who lived in a car with his parents all his childhood, and was able to give much more to his children. With unflappable calm, she tells her daughters that she has long known that her sister gave birth to a son from Beverly, and advises them to take note of this fact if someone needs a kidney transplant. She wants to escape from the horrors of her own life, from pain, but, alas, no one has ever managed to escape from herself.
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