MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Cheri
It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The sensational tale begins as the ravishing Lea contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris' most envied seductress to the rich and famous. Her plans are cut short when she is approached by a former courtesan and arch rival, the barb-throwing gossip Charlotte Peloux, who encourages Lea to teach her disaffected 19-year-old son -- a bon vivant nicknamed "Cheri" -- a thing or two about women. The resulting escapades involve power struggles over sex, money, age and society -- and, unexpectedly, love itself -- as a boy who refuses to grow up collides with a woman who realizes she cannot stay young forever.
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About 20 years ago, filmmaker Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton adapted the novel Dangerous Liaisons. From Choderos de Laclos' defining document of 18th-century French literature, they spun a movie that brilliantly contrasted the cynics, who play love as a sport, against the romantics, visibly elevated by the union of two souls.
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MPAA rating:
R
for some sexual content and brief drug use
Cast:
Toby Kebbell; Iben Hjejle; Frances Tomelty; Anita Pallenberg; Kathy Bates; Rupert Friend; Felicity Jones; Rollo Weeks; Harriet Walter; Michelle Pfeiffer
Directed by:
Stephen Frears
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Romance Running time:
01:40
Release date:
2009
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