Overview
Genre
Drama, RomanceRelease Date
June 26, 2009 (Limited)MPAA Rating
RDuration
100 min.Studio
Miramax FilmsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Stephen FrearsProducer
Bill Kenwright, Thom Mount, Andras Hamori, Tracey SeawardScreenwriter
Christopher HamptonStarring
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Lea de Lonval
- Kathy Bates as Madame Peloux
- Rupert Friend as Cheri
- Felicity Jones as Edmee
- Frances Tomelty
- Anita Pallenberg
- Harriet Walter
- Iben Hjejle
Story
It all begins as Lea de Lonval (Pfeiffer) realizes that the time has come for her to retire as Paris's most envied seductress of the rich and famous. After all, though she's still breathtaking, she's not exactly getting any younger. Just as she starts wondering what her future holds, along comes her archrival Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), a notoriously manipulative gossip, with an unusual proposition. It seems that Charlotte's 19 year-old son - a bon vivant nicknamed Cheri (Friend) - is gorgeous, charming and complete disappointment to her. Fed up with his petulance, Charlotte slyly suspects Lea can knock some sense into the boy with her worldly ways.
But Lea does far more than that and six years later, she and Cheri are still living together in a most outrageous fashion. Naturally, they know this state of affairs can't go on forever. But when Charlotte Peloux to match Cheri to a girl his own age for marriage and break up their adventuresome tryst, no one is prepared for what truly lies beneath their frivolous affair.
