The Cherry Orchard (1999)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 12
This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is too tedious to hold interest.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is too tedious to hold interest.
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Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton Chekhov, set in 1900. Lyubov Ranevskaya (Charlotte Rampling) left Russia to escape troubling memories of the death of her son. Now her family is riddled with debt and Lyubov and her teenaged daughter Anya (Tushka Bergen) have come home to the family estate, looking for a way to pay their bills. Much to their dismay, the Ranevskayas are forced to sell their land to
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Charlotte Rampling
Lyuba Ranevsky -
Alan Bates
Leonid Gaev -
Katrin Cartlidge
Varya Ranevsky -
Owen Teale
Yermolay Lopakhin -
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Michael Gough
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Tushka Bergen
Anya Ranevsky -
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Melanie Lynskey
Dunyasha -
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Andrew Howard
Peter Trofimov -
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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.
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.
Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility.
Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness.
Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music.
Looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in Jane Hamilton's exemplary costumes, Rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon.
The film spars with a light touch and heavy heart among character, social friction and class contradictions.
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.
One of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret.
Chekhov has never looked or sounded better.
The new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'
A sometimes tedious film.
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.
It's not a bit stagy, yet it manages to be dazzling theater.
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Foreign Titles
- The Cherry Orchard (DE)
- The Cherry Orchard (UK)
