As I Lay Dying
Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family';s quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
29 December 1976, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
14 March 1965, Hollywood, California, USA
11 December 1971, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
8 February 1981, Allen, Texas, USA
1 November 1976, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
November 10, 2013
As I Lay Dying tries to adapt the impossible, but unfortunately it is bested by Faulkner's weighty source material.
November 04, 2013
A qualified, perfectly respectable success
October 10, 2013
It remains to be seen whether James Franco can live up to his outsized ambitions.
October 24, 2013
What Franco came up with... is messy, bizarre, muted, and confusing, but it's also heartfelt and personal. It takes more risks than most movies.
October 09, 2013
Faulkner fans... need not be up in arms about this version of his Nobel Prize winner.
October 10, 2013
As a whole ... "As I Lay Dying" conveys some of Faulkner's themes, and the details of the Bundren family story, with clarity and concision.
October 08, 2013
The past may never be done with us, but Lord, do we wish Franco was done with our literary heritage.
October 10, 2013
Like Franco's other directorial efforts, it ends up coming across as an academic art object, somewhere halfway between a graduate thesis and a video installation-interesting, but only in context.
November 06, 2013
Some of the filming techniques are overused and the monologues are a bit too circuitous, but As I Lay Dying has the ability to be quite striking at times and its impulsive structure can be viewed as both an asset and a defect.
October 18, 2013
Franco may prove that he has a fresh visual eye, but the highly emotive story is oddly uninvolving.
October 11, 2013
I don't pretend to have a clue how to adapt William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" for the screen, but unlike James Franco, I, at least, didn't try.
October 30, 2013
Both brilliant and maddening
