Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 131
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 64
A too-short script and a romance lacking in heat detracts from an otherwise haughty charmer.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 17
A too-short script and a romance lacking in heat detracts from an otherwise haughty charmer.
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Stephen Frears, the director who bolstered his international reputation with his Choderlos de Laclos adaptation Dangerous Liaisons (1988), returns to the annals of period intrigue over 20 years later with this melodrama, which reunites him with Liasons 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 -- La Belle Époque -- where numerous courtesans (or female companions of noblemen who
Jun 26, 2009 Wide
Oct 20, 2009
$2.6M
Miramax
All Critics (131) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (66) | DVD (5)
A movie like Cheri needs the time and space of The Age of Innocence. Instead, it's rushed along in an hour and 40 minutes.
It's the kind of refined, delicate acting Pfeiffer does so well, and it's a further reminder of how much we've missed her since she's been away.
These two lovebirds are playfully mismatched, and that's just why they fall for each other.
Cheri is a serviceable period piece, but not much more.
Michelle Pfeiffer is quite good, but the script leaves Kathy Bates -- talented as she is -- with a bit of a cartoonish performance.
Where is the passion? Where is the heat?
Insubstantial bit of fluff, with whores sitting around dishing each other.
For a movie that is so steeped in sex and carries an R rating, there's a pretty scant amount of titillating sex.
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Gallic liaisons that aren't especially dangerous - or intriguing.
Un correcto cuadro de época, entre la comedia picaresca y el drama romántico, con sólo una excusa para verlo: el regreso protagónico de Michelle Pfeiffer.
Director Stephen Frears made a nice job of The Queen but this is 'King awful.
Frears is in no hurry to tell his story, and bids the audience to enjoy the sensation of glimpsing life from a bygone era.
Frears does a fine job of capturing the look of turn-of-the-century France, as well as the essence of Colette's story.
Clever, charming, and slightly superficial, Cheri is the kind of pert period piece that gets by on a great deal of creative goodwill.
(T)he chemistry of these performers makes it not just believable but almost inevitable: emotionally guarded beauties who inadvertently allow affection into their relationship.
Extras on the disc include a set of deleted scenes, a 'making of' featurette and several movie trailers.
Scene after scene unfolds, with colourful costumes, attractive sets, knowing glances and innuendo, but also a feeling that this is a pedestrian read-through of a stage play.
Cheri has its problems, and given the dubious video presentation on this DVD edition, now it has more.
A limp whore's tale set in the turn of the 20th-century in Paris.
The film is a comedy of manners with a powerful undercurrent of tragedy. Cheri is funny, sad and charming, and the ending may shock you.
Sadly the few good elements of Cheri only serve to highlight the films considerable inadequacies, and the only bedroom-based action it will inspire is a comforting nap, possibly before the end of the film.
What a drag it is getting old.
Remember Boyle and MacDonald's names: you'll be hearing them a lot when awards season comes around.
During la belle epoque, an old courtesan and a young man fall in love, but when the man must marry, their relationship reaches an impasse.Playwright/screenwriter Christopher Hampton collaborated with director Stephen Frears in 1988 to produce one of the most vicious battles of the genders ever put to film, Dangerous
July 13, 2011
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Indulge in a wicked game of seduction A romantic story of a young boy who is attracted by a prostitute older than himSo the movie inst so bad, i thought it could have been worst, way worst, its an elegant movie, that is visually pleasing, nothing out of the ordinary. In terms of costume this movie is fabulous,
October 10, 2010Super Reviewer
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