Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility.
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05/31/02
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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
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06/25/03
... a confusing drudgery.
02/25/02
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 CriticMs. 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
Top CriticNo review available.
06/29/05
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12/30/06
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
... wise and elegiac ...
02/24/02
[E]njoyable in the way long summer afternoons can be...
02/20/02
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
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 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
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 CriticEssential viewing for lovers of Chekhov.
02/22/02
Top CriticChekhov has never looked or sounded better.
10/21/02
A sometimes tedious film.
05/24/02
Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness.
04/26/02
Top CriticIt's not a bit stagy, yet it manages to be dazzling theater.
04/11/02
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