Cheri
Autumn 2009 Features series
Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 4:00pm
Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 7:00pm
Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre
450 Main Street, Wolfville, NS
Directed by Stephen Frears
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones
Rated 14A ·
1h 26m
United Kingdom, France, Germany
English
Elegant, witty pleasures are what Michelle Pfeiffer, director Stephen Frears and writer Christopher Hampton — who last collaborated on 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons — carve out of this tale by the French novelist Colette. Set in Paris in the early 1900s, the film begins as retired courtesan Léa (Pfeiffer) enters into a six-year affair with Cheri (the excellent Rupert Friend), 19, the son of her colleague Charlotte (a wickedly frisky Kathy Bates). Léa and Cheri who pretend there is no such thing as love, are ultimately scarred by it. With Pfeiffer, 50, radiating uncommon beauty, grace and feeling, Frears offers a sophisticated romantic drama, wonderfully lush and witty—funny, stylish and made with class. From Peter Travers, Rolling Stone