Chéri (film)
- Michelle Pfeiffer: Léa de Lonval
- Kathy Bates: Madame Peloux
- Rupert Friend: Chéri
- Felicity Jones: Edmée
- Frances Tomelty: Rose
- Anita Pallenberg: La Copine
- Harriet Walter: La Loupiote
- Iben Hjejle: Marie Laure
Chéri - A comedy of the Vanities (Original Title: Chéri ) is a British- German - French film from 2009 The film was based on the novel Chéri by Colette. .
Action
The film is set in the Belle Époque in France. The courtesans Léa de Lonval and Madame Peloux have come at this time to untold wealth. Chéri is the son of Madame Peloux - a beautiful, 19 - year-old man. Surrounded by luxury and little sheltered by his mother, he early came in the nightlife of Paris and is now the many affairs tired. The much older Léa takes care of his. She is his motherly friend and lover. Six years they stay together until Madame Peloux threading the marriage of her son with the rich and young Kurtisanentochter Edmée. Chéri fits and leaves Léa. This is finding out to her own astonishment, that they fell in love with Cheri and is unhappy. She seeks solace on a trip to Biarritz, where she has a brief affair with a young man who, however, is not a substitute for Chéri. But she plays opposite Madame Peloux the proud seductress and does not reveal her lovesickness. Chéri is bored of Edmée and jealous of Léa's new lover, from whom he has learned through rumors. He 'll get over the Parisian nightlife, and compass to the hotel. Léa achieved in Biarritz the news that Cheri has left his wife, and she returned to Paris. When he hears of it, he moves back to his young wife because he believes now to be able to start a three-way relationship. He visits Léa and suggests her that he had finally come back. Both confess their love, and Léa planning their future together. After all, they, however, sees through him and makes him realize that he can not have both they and only. At the same time Chéri has to realize that he has emancipated itself from Léa, he is the paternalism sorry and also their age. He leaves without looking back.
The narrator reports that Chéri is much later realized that Léa is the only woman he can love. Based on this knowledge, he commits suicide.
Background
Chéri - A comedy of vanities started un the USA on June 26, 2009 and August 27, 2009 in the German cinemas. The German premiere took place at the Berlin International Film Festival on 10 February 2009.
Reviews
" Snappy dialogue, sneaky phrases, malignant compliments, which are the manners in the circle of aging courtesans, which keep each other company, because the other company, publicly at least, not to associate maintains with them - and that's besides the costumes and the magnificent equipment, the whole harmless attraction of " Chéri ". "
" Gorgeous equipped, elegantly shot and well staffed by a still charming Michelle Pfeiffer and a wonderfully moody Rupert Friend in the leading roles, Chéri offers dialogue wit, elegance and lightness that matches its ample flow of champagne in this film in anything."
" Michelle Pfeiffer is so great and beautiful and dignified, that she would bring each hollywoodianischen obsession with youth advocates easily silenced - mature ladies give off and often the better pictures the better stories. And Frears revels in costumes and dresses that a pass over the eyes. "
" Cheri is one thing above all: elegant. This applies to the decor and costumes as well as the narration. Already in the opening credits sums up a speaker with a smug tone of the historical highlights of the Kurtisanentums together, outpacing a rhetorical marksmanship arise indicating that later continues in the dialogues. "
Synchronization
Dialogue book and director: Dr. Beate Klöckner
German Distributor: Prokino film distribution GmbH
Synchronized Production: Christa Kistner synchronous production GmbH