The Seagull (2018)

This was certainly an interesting film, adapted from the Anton Chekhov play.
Despite the film occurring in Russia in 1904, they all speak with American accents and seem naive to the world around them, oblivious to the changes around them.
Annette Bening is an aging actress, Irina, visiting the country with her famous author boyfriend Boris (Corey Stoll) who is far younger than her. Irina's son, Konstantin (Billy Howle) is a struggling author and his play is very avant garde and ahead of its time. And his mother has no respect for it. That is a hot summer, and the love triangles are very complicated. Nina (Saiorse Ronan) is Konstantin's girlfriend and aspiring actress but she falls in love with Boris but Irina won't let him go. And Masha (Elisabeth Moss), somehow related to them, is a drunk, depressed woman in love with Konstantin ignoring the love of poor schoolteacher Mikhail (Michael Zegen). She eventually decides to marry him, but isn't happy about it. That couple needs more screen time.
In the end, most of the characters are more depressed than when they started and Konstantin probably finally succeeds in committing suicide. Nina describes herself as the seagull, just like the one Konstantin killed earlier in the film. She's still in love with Boris, even after he tossed her aside. And she's made it an actress despite her rough technique but she's miserable. Most of them are as well.
There are some problems. The performances are great, each character is fully fleshed out but some of them just do not appear enough, besides, when is the last time Mare Winningham appeared in a major film? Still, it was an interesting film and not a wasted evening. But I prefer happy endings. Grade: B