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CHÉRI DVD Review
26 October 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Miramax Film’s “Chéri” marks the reunion of director Stephen Frears, screenwriter Christopher Hampton, and actress Michelle Pfeiffer, who previously worked together on 1988’s deliciously evil costume drama “Dangerous Liaisons.” Here, Pfeiffer trades in the virginal innocence of her “Liaisons” character for the hardened beauty and shrewd business acumen of the less than virginal Lea de Lonvsal. Set during the prosperous Belle Époque era in pre World War I France, “Chéri” tells the charming and ultimately heartbreaking story of how Lea, an aging courtesan, finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with a man young enough to be her…well, son. That synopsis might make it tempting to label “Chéri” “cougar” cinema, but let’s allow that somewhat degrading term to rest on billboards advertising the latest pedestrian sitcom, rather than a film this pedigreed. More after the jump:
Based on two novels by bad girl French writer Colette, “Chéri” opens »
- Harrison Pierce
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 10/20
20 October 2009 10:48 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox run for their lives as Michael Bay's giant robots trample onto the home video scene on DVD (single-disc or two-disc special edition) and Blu-ray (two-disc special edition). The special editions includes audio commentary by Bay and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, deleted / alternate scenes, a music video, and additional features, such as "A Day With Bay: Tokyo," "Giant Effing Movie," and "The Matrix of Marketing." To approximate the theatrical experience, play really, really loud, and sit as far back from the screen as you possibly can. Resistance is futile. Rent it.
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Chris Nahon's live-action adaptation of an anime series features a half-human, half-vampire samurai battling an infestation of demons. "the result is so laughably awful that it easily qualifies for so-bad-it's-good status," wrote Jeffrey M. Anderson. »
- Peter Martin
DVD Review: ‘Cheri’ Knows Love Isn’t Love if It’s All About You
14 October 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “Cheri” could be confused with an updated adaptation of a Jane Austen novel if its characters weren’t so comfortable with what goes on between the sheets. Like players in many stuffy costume dramas, they wear the best clothes, live in lavishly decorated homes and speak their perfect grammar in posh accents. But since they aren’t sexually repressed, they do it all with a little bounce in their step.
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
The story, taken from a few novels by Colette, takes place in early-twentieth century France, and it would appear that even in those days, people in that part of the world made members of other cultures look like a bunch of prudes. A woman like Michelle Pfeiffer’s Lea de Lonval, for example, could not only make a career out of prostitution without seeming the least bit trashy. She could come home to a tasteful estate where »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
DVD release inspirations including Fast and Furious
21 September 2009 4:37 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Hello Boxwishers, we hope you’ve had a good weekend. Maybe you went to see the hugely successful Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, or another new release. This Friday brings some more amazing new cinema releases but if you can’t wait till then why not check out these films new to DVD today? Firstly we’ve got the car-crazy action movie Fast & Furious, and mystery crime thriller State of Play. Also new today is period romance Chéri and high fashion documentary The September Issue. Read on for our suggestions on how these films can inspire you.
If you see… Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) avenging his girlfriends murder, exposing drug dealers and racing cool cars through the streets of La in the high adrenaline Fast & Furious.
Why Not Try your hand at driving some awesome American Muscle cars at the historic Goodwood circuit. Read our guide to the souped up cars in the film, »
Cheri DVD Set to Seduce Audiences on October 20th
14 August 2009 8:15 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Michelle Pfeiffer's sexy new drama Cheri will slink its way onto DVD October 20th with a retail price of $29.99 Srp. Stephen Frears, the director who bolstered his international reputation with his Choderlos de Laclos adaptation Dangerous Liaisons, returns to the annals of period intrigue over 20 years later with this melodrama, which reunites him with Dangerous Liaisons scripter Christopher Hampton and star Michelle Pfeiffer.
An adaptation of Colette's 1920 novel of the same name, the tale unfurls in late 19th century Paris, where numerous courtesans (or female companions of noblemen who occupied the royal courts) have worked their way up through the ranks of high society. Two retired courtesans, Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates) and Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer), meet for some routine gossip; Lea then meets Charlotte's hedonistic playboy son, nicknamed "Chéri" (Rupert Friend), and a passionate, erotic affair blossoms for the next six years between Lea and Chéri. »
Review: Chéri
2 July 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Like its courtesan protagonist, Chéri is a fancy, dolled up affair, a glamorous evocation of the waning days of the Belle Époque, the last period before the grim realities of the contentious 20th century set in for France and the rest of the world. From Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, its narrative features games of the heart and bedroom, not unlike Dangerous Liaisons, their wildly successful first collaboration. Still, there’s no depth to these surface machinations, no sense that the central romance features fully formed individuals connecting on an elemental level. It’s breezy, lightweight stuff that never avoids being inextricably entwined to the meticulously constructed milieu. Pfeiffer plays Lea de Lonval, courtesan to the wealthy and friend to the gregarious society gossip Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates), who asks Lea to take her teenage son Chéri (Rupert Friend) under her wing. Their relationship quickly transforms into a strange, oedipal »
- Robert Levin
"Chéri" - New clip added from the Michelle Pfeiffer starrer.
30 June 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
See a new clip courtesy of Apple from Miramax's "Chéri," starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones, Frances Tomelty, Harriet Walter and Anta Pallenberg. Stephen Frears directs from the writing by Christopher Hampton based on the novel by Colette. Bill Kenwright, Thom Mount and Andras Hamori produce the film. It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The sensational tale begins as the ravishing Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris’s most envied seductress to the rich and famous... »
The Cheatin' Heart of Cheri
29 June 2009 2:53 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Sex is in the air, what with Governor Sanford going Awol for a cruise with his Argentine hottie (joining the club of Republicans with conservative mouths and liberal dicks). Which brings me to Cheri, Stephen Frears's new film about courtesans of the Belle Epoque who parlayed sexual savoir faire into hefty fortunes. Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates). At fifty-one Michelle Pfeiffer is roughly the same age as Lea. So we could be forgiven for hoping that here at last was an Anglo-Saxon breakthrough flick with a middle-aged woman as object of desire. But in fact, we've been cheated. Except for a final shot... »
- Erica Abeel
Interview: 'Cheri' Director Stephen Frears
26 June 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Multiple Oscar nominee Stephen Frears is a tough nut to crack. Amiable but terse, his excellent multilayered films do the talking for him, from his first collaboration with Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer on 1998's Dangerous Liaisons to 2007's The Queen. In his latest film, Cheri (read Cinematical's review here), Frears turns his lens onto the cloistered and often duplicitous world of wealthy courtesans. Frears' films often focus on subversive outsiders who must make their own "family," as it were, such as Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, and My Beautiful Laundrette. But Cheri's delicious spin on sex, love, and aging is typical of its source material from author Colette, whose books Cheri and The Last of Cheri present a world of upside-down relationships and self-sufficient, frankly sexual women.
Michelle Pfeiffer leads the cast as the stunning Lea de Lonval, a famous courtesan whose friend Madame Peloux, played with busty abandon by Kathy Bates, »
- Jenni Miller
Review: Cheri
26 June 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The French writer Colette, born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954), lived one of those witty, charming lives you've read about, doing things like performing at the Moulin Rouge and having affairs with Josephine Baker, while marrying several rich husbands. She wrote, among many other things, what would become the famous musical Gigi, which Director Vincente Minnelli turned into a dull, immobile Oscar-winning hit in 1958. The English film director Stephen Frears would have been 13 when Colette died, though at that age, he had most likely never heard of her. But now, 55 years later, the two have teamed up for the new movie Cheri, based on Collete's 1920 novel about a passionate affair between an aging courtesan and a spoiled younger man.
Frears seems like the right man for the job. After all, his similarly sexy costume drama Dangerous Liaisons (1988) was another Oscar-winning hit. And in his Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) he dealt with issues of »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Le Baiser de Noilly
26 June 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Have a newsworthy cocktail hour with Vf Daily’s current-events-inspired concoctions. Today’s cocktail was inspired by the late French novelist Colette, who scandalized Paris at the turn of the last century by rollicking around like Lindsay Lohan—sapphic behavior and all. Colette wrote the novel Chéri, which has been adapted into a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, and Rupert Friend. The film opens today. Today’s recipe, Le Baiser (or “The Kiss,”) is in honor of not only the chemistry between Pfeiffer and Friend in the movie but also the onstage kiss that Colette shared with her female lover at the culmination of the author’s pantomime show at the Moulin Rouge back in the day. Le Baiser de Noilly 1 1/4 oz. Noilly Prat vermouth 1 1/4 oz. Bombay Sapphire gin 3/4 oz. fresh pineapple juice 1/4 oz. grenadine 1 twist of pink-grapefruit peel 1 fresh raspberry Shake together liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker, »
HuffPost Review: Cheri
26 June 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
It's such a pleasure to watch Michelle Pfeiffer hold the screen in a way she hasn't for far too long that one can almost forgive Cheri its flaws. Almost. Based on novels by Colette, Cheri reunites Pfeiffer with director Stephen Frears and writer Christopher Hampton, with whom she worked on Dangerous Liaisons two decades ago. The story is set 150 years later, but the subject is the same: love, lust and the manipulation of both in the name of personal power. Pfeiffer plays Lea de Lonval, a rich, aging Paris courtesan during La Belle Epoque. Enriched by past lovers, she agrees to take the son of a friend -- another wealthy courtesan (Kathy Bates) -- to the south of France to get him away from bad influences in Paris. The boy, known as Cheri (Rupert Friend), is only 19, though he's already developed... »
- Marshall Fine
Michelle Pfeiffer shows her age beautifully in "Chéri"
26 June 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
I need to show y’all something.
This is Michelle Pfeiffer, in 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons.
This is Michelle Pfeiffer in Chéri, which opens today.
In case your math skills are like mine, 21 years have passed between those two pictures. And Pfeiffer is more stunning than ever.
Sure, she may have had a Botox injection or two (she says she hasn’t had plastic surgery — yet), but, face it (sorry), she is one of those women who get better with age. Thank you, Universe.
In Chéri, which is based on the novels of French feminist and bisexual writer Colette, Pfeiffer plays Léa de Lonval, an aging-but-still-breathtaking Parisian courtesan who becomes involved with Chéri (Rupert Friend), a man half her age. (Thanks to Melissa Silverstein for the photo.)
Photos: Bruno Calvo/ Courtesy of Miramax Films
Kathy Bates plays Chéri’s mother Charlotte, herself a retired courtesan, who initially asks Léa to help her son grow up, »
- thelinster
Dueling with Stephen Frears
26 June 2009 7:56 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Stephen Frears burst on the scene in 1985 with his cheeky "My Beautiful Laundrette," igniting a winning streak that included "Prick Up Your Ears," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Grifters" and "The Queen." Though famously hard to pigeonhole, the genre-spanning filmmaker gravitates toward folks struggling on the social margins or engaged in emotional gamesmanship. Frears is also, famously, a royal pain to interview. He almost defies you to extract responses from him, looking simultaneously gleeful and contrite, so you somehow empathize with him. In a sit-down for his new film "Cheri," he was reliably armored -- perhaps because his antennae are exquisitely attuned to pick up what he might call a "dodgy" reaction to his latest project.
More than two decades after "Liaisons," "Cheri" reunites Frears with ace screenwriter Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer. Set in Belle Époque Paris, the saucy tragicomedy centers on the sumptuous world of courtesans -- demimondaines -- banned from polite society, »
- Erica Abeel
Movie Review: Cheri (2009)
26 June 2009 4:03 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend in Cheri
Photo: Miramax Films Stephen Frears reteams with his Dangerous Liaisons (1988) screenwriter Christopher Hampton and supporting actress Michelle Pfeiffer for Cheri, an adaptation of two novels from Colette, the famed French author whose novel also spawned the 1959 Best Picture winner Gigi. To say expectations for this film were high would be an understatement considering the source material, the three Oscars Liaisons won back in 1989 and the anticipated hope we may see Pfeiffer step back into Oscar-worthy form. Liaisons was the first of three Oscar nominations for Pfeiffer and while her turn here as an aging courtesan of the belle epoque is tasty, it is Rupert Friend as the title character that steals the show in a film that doesn't live up to expectation, but is entirely enjoyable. In describing my feelings for this film to a friend that missed the press screening I found »
- Brad Brevet
Movie Review: “Chéri”
26 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: June 19, 2009
The players: Director: Stephen Frears, Writer: Christopher Hampton, Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Bette Bourne, Felicity Jones
Facts of interest: Stephen Frears also directed "The Queen."
The plot: A famous courtesan's plans to reture are shattered when she launches into an affair with a much younger man.
Our thoughts: Director Stephen Frears reunites with his “Dangerous Liaisons” actress Michelle Pfeiffer in his latest drama “Chéri,” based on the popular 1920 novel by French author Colette. The result, though not as intriguing as some of Frears’ other recent works, is certainly watchable, with Pfeiffer and co-actor Rupert Friend delivering a pair of compelling performances. »
- Franck Tabouring
Cougar Courtesan Stalks Prey
25 June 2009 8:57 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
A radiant Michelle Pfeif fer plays an early 20th-century French cougar -- yes, the concept's been around a while, kids -- in Stephen Frears' slight but highly decorative "Chéri."
The 51-year-old actress -- who hasn't had a lead role in a theatrically released movie in eight years -- is affecting and charming in this reunion with not only the director but also the writer (Christopher Hampton) of "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988).
Based on two early 1920s novels by Colette ("Gigi") -- reportedly inspired by a scandalous »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Cheri: Michelle Pfeiffer
24 June 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Michelle Pfeiffer is beautiful in any era, but give her a slim-silhouetted petticoat and pre-Raphaelite curls, and she's even more elegant than usual. Throw in a sexy young paramour (in this case, Rupert Friend), a reunion with the director (Stephen Frears) and writer (Christopher Hampton) of Dangerous Liaisons, and you've got a movie! Cheri, to be exact, based on two seminal books by the fascinating French author Colette (Gigi). The film, which opens this Friday (June 26) marks a triumphant return for Pfeiffer-as-leading-lady. Read more about Cheri here, but in the meantime, here's the roundtable interview with Pfeiffer, presented in its entirety. What drew you to this film, apart from working with Stephen Frears again? Well that was a big draw. I was thrilled - thrilled - when I got the call from Stephen. Honestly, I would do the phone book with him. And I was of course thrilled and delighted when I read it, »
Cougar Courtesan: Cheri
24 June 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
In Cheri, Michelle Pfeiffer reunites with the writer (Christopher Hampton) and director (Stephen Frears) of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) for another romp through the sexual mores and social terrain of an earlier period. In this case, it's 1906 in Paris, and Pfeiffer is Lea de Lonval, an aging-but-still-stunningly-beautiful courtesan confronting her future as a woman of a certain age. Fortunately, she has the luxury of a fortune amassed over several decades: a reward for her smart business acumen, her fierce independence - quite rare for women of the time - and her obvious skill in the seduction and pleasure of men. Cheri is an amplification of the rich details found in two seminal short novels by the French writer Colette (herself a liberated woman of a certain age), in which courtesans are in a social class of their own. Educated, wealthy, and elegant, yet not invited to mix socially with the rest of the riche, »
Interview: Christopher Hampton On East Of Eden, The Seagull And Cheri
23 June 2009 11:39 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Christopher Hampton could be considered the king of adaptations, having brought the words of writers as varied as Graham Greene, Ian McEwan, and now Colette to the screen. He won an Oscar last time he wrote a screenplay for director Stephen Frears, 1988's Dangerous Liaisons, and now he's working with Frears again on Cheri. At last weekend's press junket for the movie, we asked Hampton about his process of translating a book as sexy and specific as Colette's Cheri, which tells the story of an affair between an aging courtesan and her friend's young son in glamorous turn-of-the-century Paris. I'll bring you our roundtable talk with Hampton, but first he talked about a few of his upcoming projects, including a new screenplay of John Steinbeck's East of Eden for director Tom Hooper, and plans to bring last fall's New York stage version of The Seagull-- starring Kristin Scott Thomas, »
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