The Cherry Orchard (2002)
54 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 14 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus:
This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is too tedious to hold interest.
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 22, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Lyubov (Charlotte Rampling) is brought home to her Russian estate after having fled to France amidst family tragedy. Returning home in 1900 after the liberation of the serfs, nothing seems to have changed. The mansion has been impeccably kept up and the trees in the cherry orchard are in... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Owen Teale, Katrin Cartlidge, Alan Bates, Melanie Lynskey
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Screenwriter: Michael Cacoyannis
Story: Anton Chekhov
Producer: Michael Cacoyannis
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Screenwriter: Michael Cacoyannis
Story: Anton Chekhov
Producer: Michael Cacoyannis
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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06/24/06
In capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating, genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills, the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st.
02/24/03
One of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret.
12/03/02
While Cacoyannis' film may not be totally faithful to the master's pen, for literature students and theater lovers, this Cherry Orchard is a rare treat.
09/13/02
The new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'
07/11/02
Ms. Rampling, still beautiful well into her 50s, has an earth-bound weariness and lively spirit that convey a life fully and tragically lived.
06/20/02
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Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility.
05/31/02
Top Critic
Cacoyannis' vision is far less mature, interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts.
05/09/02
Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness.
04/26/02
Top Critic
Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music.
04/12/02
Looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in Jane Hamilton's exemplary costumes, Rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon.
04/04/02
Top Critic
Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years.
04/04/02
Top Critic
This story tutors us in the practices of kindness and compassion for those caught up in the trauma of change and loss.
02/24/02
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