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August Evening Reviews
A very human, heartfelt story with adequate acting and pleasant cinematography.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020
Loren has an ethereal presence that is, at the same time, indomitable.
| Original Score: B | Nov 21, 2008
Eska's tale of a woman's unconditional support of her father-in-law is told with a faux-poetic sensibility that never really connects with his characters' lives.
| Oct 18, 2008
This quiet, contemplative gem of a film paints a painfully accurate portrait of familial love, loss, and healing-by-degrees among the migrant communities bordering San Antonio.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2008
(Pedro) Castaneda, the male lead in Chris Eska's mesmerizing debut feature August Evening, has the kind of natural, hypnotic screen presence that cannot be taught.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2008
A poignant film filled with ample rewards for those who submit to its leisurely pace and gentle observations.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2008
August Evening creates a complete world, with all of its practical limitations and emotional possibilities, for Jaime and Lupe to hunt for their place in.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2008
Eska, who wrote and edited his film, appears to be at the beginning of a good career.
| Sep 17, 2008
A mature move for a debuting filmmaker.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2008
A shooting star of a movie with awesome beauty in its characters, in the natural world, and in the cycles of creation and destruction depicted in the emotionally affecting drama.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2008
Pedro Castaneda, a nonprofessional appearing in his first film, and Veronica Loren tug at your heartstrings with their portrayals of the lead characters.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2008
Castaneda [star]...gives a towering, Robert Duvall-style performance as a granitic man in late middle age whose internal world of pain and love and knowledge occasionally flickers to the surface.
| Sep 5, 2008
The story sometimes moves at a crawl, but always the filmmaker follows the pair with unobtrusive attentiveness to conflicting cultural and generational pulls.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 5, 2008
As the movie inches along, its virtues turn into faults. Its elliptical style leaves unanswered questions, the pace begins to feel choppy, and the lyrical pauses become a recurrent tic.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2008
Rich in atmosphere and family values.
| Original Score: B | Sep 4, 2008
Although its plot has its share of melodramatic twists and tearful revelations, August Evening focuses on the moments between, the mundane interactions that make up a life.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 4, 2008
August Evening succeeds as both intimate human drama and a probing exploration of the nature of family.
| Original Score: 4/6 | Sep 4, 2008
[Director] Eska manages to superimpose downtrodden personalities on an authentic setting, making it a compelling exercise in atmospheric storytelling.
Full Review | Sep 3, 2008
Perhaps Eska didn't have to write all of his characters into overlapping crossroads of crisis, but he's more nuanced than overt, and his cast (especially Loren and the nonprofessional Castaneda) sells it.
| Sep 3, 2008