It's not a bit stagy, yet it manages to be dazzling theater.
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04/11/02
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The Cherry Orchard (2002)
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Owen Teale, Katrin Cartlidge, Alan Bates
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
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Reviews for The Cherry Orchard
Allegiance to Chekhov, which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, is a particularly vexing handicap.
02/19/02
Top CriticWhile 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
Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music.
04/12/02
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
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
A sometimes tedious film.
05/24/02
Cherry Orchard is badly edited, often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story.'
02/22/02
Top CriticThe irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own.
02/22/02
Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness.
04/26/02
Top CriticThe new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'
07/11/02
Essential viewing for lovers of Chekhov.
02/22/02
Top CriticOne of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret.
12/03/02
[E]njoyable in the way long summer afternoons can be...
02/20/02
Chekhov has never looked or sounded better.
10/21/02
The film spars with a light touch and heavy heart among character, social friction and class contradictions.
02/19/02
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
Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility.
05/31/02
Top CriticAny 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... a confusing drudgery.
02/25/02
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