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  (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)  Loading ... Cheri SynopsisA young wealth man gets involved with a middle aged retired courtesan, who educates him in the ways of love.
The TrailerThe ReviewI might say I’ve read Colette’s novels “Chéri” and “The Last of Chéri,” for which the movie was adapted and inspired from, and overall it was disappointing for me. Despite the fact the sets was wonderful, the Edwardian style of costumes was fabulous, and the flawless cinematography, the film lacked the sparks of the two main lead to reflect Colette’s wonderful novels. For one, there’s the casting mismatch issue. Michelle Pfeiffer for all her beauty at the age of 51, I wouldn’t cast her as Léa de Lonval, the aging courtesan. Léa is robust while Pfeiffer to me is somewhat has a certain delicate fragility about her. And don’t get me started on Kathy Bates, who plays Madame Peloux, a courtesan herself. No disrespecting to the veteran actress, but which gentleman back then would pay serious money for her services. Chéri who was played by Rupert Friend was slightly better, but to me he’s much too pale in the movie and I humored myself in the theater thinking he would fit right perfectly in for a role in any Twilight vampire movies. Set in pre World War I, in Paris, France, Léa takes upon the company of Chéri. Léa intention for the relationship is of casual in nature, but that all changed when Chéri’s mother decides to marry him off to Edmee (Felicity Jones). Being the courtesan that she is, Léa can’t of course express her dismay openly, and she has to reckon with her own loneliness. The movie has all the right ingredients, but it pans out to be passionless and lacking enough fire to capture the zest of the source material. A good effort, plenty of eyecandy, but disappointing adaptation. The Good
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Published 14th Oct 2009
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