Movie Info
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
- Frances Tomelty
- Anita Pallenberg
- Harriet Walter
- Iben Hjejle
Movie 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.
Reader's Reviews
cheri with michelle pfeiffer has turned out to be a bomb. frears never should of directed this and never should of had michelle play the lead. she cant play these types of characters, she destroyed the age of innocence. that movie didnt get any nominations for best picture and neither will this one!!
posted by randy on Feb 16, 2009
realy good movie and reandy when you'll understand acting then write you're opinion.Michelle Pfeiffer is gourgeus n her acting is one of the gretest ever
posted by anuta on Feb 27, 2009what the fuck is wrong with you randy? what the hell has the age of innocene have to do with anything? just because the setting was old? frears teamed up with pfeiffer in the late 1980s for dangerous liasons which earned michelle an oscar nominaton and great reviews internationally.. this movie is awesome.. i saw it at the berlin festival.. and i agree with anuta.. when you understand the acting of michelle pfeiffer write your opinion.. THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME..
posted by alex on Mar 14, 2009Although I loved the book, I didn't like the movie. The "décor" is great(costumes,houses,gardens etc..) but casting non french actors to play in a story talking place during "La Belle époque" was risqué. I couldn't get into the movie. I am sorry but that is the way I feel about that film. Thierry
posted by baddaboum on Jun 27, 2009
randy can be thrown to the lions now, and i wouldn't really mind and neither would Cheri. A lot of beatuy and truth was revealved quite simply and eloquently in this film, and those of us in denial will never grasp this.
posted by lidija on Jul 07, 2009
Sorry but this movie was totally unconvincing. Their love story had very little to keep me paying attention. I would have called it presposterous liaison. It was utterly disappointing. Poor Kathy came across as such a joke. Michelle does look fantastic at 51 though.
posted by Sibylle on Jul 13, 2009