Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". It holds a 40% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews with an average rating of 4.7/10. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise and criticism focused on Franco's methods of presenting Faulkner's complex narrative. It was released on Octoto iTunes and Novemto DVD/VOD platforms. The film was originally scheduled for a theatrical release on Septembut Millennium Films scrapped the plans. To locate an equivalent for the novel’s polyphonal scheme, Franco employed the use of narrative expressed through dialogue and voice overs. Faulkner told the story in a chorus of voices: 15 narrators in the 59 chapters. Franco saw this as a challenge and chose to depict the many voices through choices of styling, through camera edits. The novel As I Lay Dying was described as a story impossible to be transformed into a film due to the multi-narrative voices within it. James Franco decided to write a screenplay of the novel with a fellow Yale graduate student Matt Rager. The story is based on the loss of a mother and the struggles the family endure by going the distance to her burial ground in her home town. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard Section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. As I Lay Dying is a 2013 American drama film directed and co-written by and starring James Franco, based on William Faulkner's 1930 novel of the same name.
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