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Cheri [DVD] [2009]
enlarge	Director: Stephen Frears Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones, Frances Tomelty Studio: Pathe Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £8.67 as of 21/11/2009 16:15 GMT details You Save: £7.32 (46%) New (9) Used (2) from £8.25 Seller: ____the_best_on_dvd____ Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 3248 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 89 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002836538 ASIN: B002DPTT2A Theatrical Release Date: 2009 Release Date: September 21, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Filled with luxurious gowns and lush grounds, Stephen Frears's Colette adaptation depicts an affair too perfect to last. Parisian courtesan Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer) retains her good looks and has invested her earnings wisely, so her colleague, Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates), persuades Lea to celebrate the inception of her retirement by teaching the Madamersquo;s self-centered son, Chéri (Rupert Friend, recalling T.Rex's tousle-haired Marc Bolan), how to treat a lady. Lea, who has known Chéri his entire life, has genuine affection for the unformed lad, although, as she quips, "I can't criticise his character, mainly because he doesn't seem to have one." To her surprise, their weekend in Normandy turns into a six-year-relationship. Then, Madame Peloux announces that she has found an appropriate 18-year-old bride for her now-reformed 25-year-old boy. Afraid to admit the depth of their feelings for each other, the duo grudgingly goes along with the plan since Belle Époque society demands that a proper gentleman marry a proper lady, and Lea realizes that matrimony to a man half her age isn't an option. But real love--even the co-dependent kind--can't be banished quite so easily as a bad habit. Frears and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton, adapting "Chéri" and "The Last of Chéri", previously collaborated with Pfeiffer on iDangerous Liaisons/i, but their reunion is a comparatively somber affair that comes recommended more for fans of the actress, who gives the role her all, than for fans of the filmmaker, whose direction feels perfunctory, particularly during the blink-and-you'll-miss-it epilogue. i--Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon.com/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next » Really very good! October 10, 2009 av-man (Elstree) 1 out of 5 found this review helpful I was very pleasantly surprised by this film. Beautifully, sumptuously filmed, great acting from Michelle Pfeiffer (radiantly beautiful) and Rupert Friend, and a touching, involving story. br / br /Thoroughly recommended. Another five star movie for Michelle Pheiffer. November 21, 2009 Isabella Balkert (Denmark) And Rupert Friend is perfect as the narcissistic lover who flows into a 6 year relationship because he is much more infatuated than he thinks - Definitely to lazy to act on his own - Or realize that he has the power to hurt or be hurt by this strange love affair. br / br /The film is a lovely bittersweet picture, painted in the spirit of Maupassant by Colette and Michelle Pheiffer portrays so brilliantly how much love of youth can be a tonic as well as a mortifying drink. She is brilliant. br / br / br / An old confection November 12, 2009 W. Rodick (Cheshire United Kingdom) Chéri is a film desperate to be thought of as worthy. The initial set-up is good with a semi authoritative voiceover telling us of 'whores of every description' and two in particular are singled out as examples of both old and rich. The tension between Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates is beautifully underplayed right up until one long stare from Bates' character just so slightly reminds us of her 'Misery' performance. br / br /After the set-up the film trudges along until the inevitable split after six years. This is a flaw, I was never convinced that the young man called Chéri and Pfeiffer had been together for six years. Pangs of Hollywood solitude and balcony episodes ensued before the film really settles down as a serious romance story for the final thirty minutes or so. br / br /I wished the film had started in this mode with just the occasional voiceover punctuating our experience with real authority as it does in Bertollucci's magnificent The Sheltering Sky [DVD] [1990]. Chéri has a Sherlock Holmes style music to try to help the instances of tension but is clearly trying too hard to be interesting. I mean I had that necklace routine when I was seventeen and this guy is twenty five and handsome! br / br /All the acting performances are well controlled perhaps as befitting the time. Perhaps. To conclude, I would say that the film is too mixed up, not wanting full on personal loving and tripping or continual social commentary or the pleasure of numerous pearls of wit. Not as bad as I'd feared or as good as it could have been. br / Costume Drama Fails The Mark. September 28, 2009 Ms. J. F. Gilby (bexhill, uk) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful For a change, I rented this out and watched it yesterday afternoon. Story is Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins a six year affair with Cheri (Rupert Friend) only for his mother (Kathy Bates) to want him marrying a much younger woman. Lea lets him go but she soon realises that she has fallen for the man and he refuses to love his long-suffering wife. When the pair meet again, will they let their passion overrule everything? Sure, the costumes and settings are beautiful to look at and Pfeiffer was good in her role. You felt her pain and could easily see her character aging gracefully. The weakest out of the lot was Friend, he looks and acts like a woman. Why on earth did they chose him to be the love intrest? The chemisty between the two was bare, where was the passionate romance and the true dispair for the couple? I do love costume dramas that have a beautiful love story but here was non-existant. Like the other reviewer, I truely argee that this film was dull and the ending was the worst rushed one I have seen for something like this. Only recommened if you are a fan of either the stars but don't expect a tear-jerking romance, it's not here. beautiful but excruciatingly dull October 14, 2009 sacha A dreadfully poor dull adaptation of the novel, beautiful sets/costumes but drearily directed and uninvolving. The actor playing cheri is miscast, there is no chemistry and no sense of why this charming lady would fall in love with this charmless, irritating, not even beautiful boy. Other performances are very good but don't make up for the rest. Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next »

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