Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya (Wallace Shawn) has spent years running a country estate to support the retired professor Serybryakov (George Gaynes), and the professor's arrival with his young wife Yelena (Julianne Moore) unsettles the household. The company performs Chekhov's play act by act in a run-down theater, in street clothes and with no real scenery. Louis Malle, in his last film, films it with an intimacy that lets you forget the camera is there.