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.
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07/03/09
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Cheri (2009)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:14
Rotten:16
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: A too-short script and a romance lacking in heat detracts from an otherwise haughty charmer.
Theatrical Release:Jun 26, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $2,643,292
Synopsis: Stephen Frears, director of THE QUEEN and HIGH FIDELITY, continues to demonstrate his genre-defying talent with this adaptation of a Colette novel. Set in Paris in the years before World War I,... [More]
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones
Director: Stephen Frears
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Reviews for Cheri
Top CriticIt'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.
07/01/09
Top CriticThese two lovebirds are playfully mismatched, and that's just why they fall for each other.
06/30/09
Top CriticCheri is a serviceable period piece, but not much more.
06/30/09
Top CriticMichelle Pfeiffer is quite good, but the script leaves Kathy Bates -- talented as she is -- with a bit of a cartoonish performance.
06/29/09
Top CriticWhere is the passion? Where is the heat?
06/29/09
Top CriticIt's hard to believe that the smart Lea would remain interested for six hours, much less six years, with the vapid Chéri.
06/26/09
Top CriticLike the exquisite costumes, the scenery is as gorgeous as most of the cast, providing the perfect backdrop for some unabashed escapism.
06/26/09
Top CriticChéri is a sad, intelligent film about coming of age late in life, looking in the mirror and wondering, "What happened?"
06/26/09
Top CriticA smart and lushly romantic film adaptation of a Colette story of a doomed love.
06/26/09
Top CriticThe film itself, though, is all dressed up with nowhere to go.
06/26/09
Top CriticThere just isn't enough beneath the surface in Cheri to justify all the talent on hand.
06/26/09
Top CriticWith nothing truly at risk of being lost, we're left to ask, why are we here?
06/26/09
Top CriticChéri is a perfect example of a movie that gets many of the details right and the vibe all wrong.
06/26/09
Top CriticPfeiffer is curiously cold and brittle, while Friend never allows us to feel his character's anguish when he realizes the error of leaving Lea.
06/26/09
Top CriticThis costume drama doesn't have nearly as much bite as [Dangerous Liaisons], though the age reversal of its central romance gives it a certain topicality.
06/26/09
Top CriticThe movie speaks to issues of traditional desirability and dignity, specifically to the point in a woman's life when she either makes decisions about how well those two qualities can exist together or has them made for her.
06/26/09
Top CriticBy the end, it almost seems as if Frears has wearied of the tale, bringing in the narrator to dispatch Chéri to his fate (an unhappy one) in a few well-modulated sentences.
06/26/09
Top CriticCheri, like the character, is an entertaining bauble without much on its mind.
06/26/09
Top CriticThe movie bogs down by going nowhere other than inside its characters, who are intensely passionate but of an era more curious than emotionally relevant.
06/26/09
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