If you like Pfeiffer, go to Cheri

Alexa 2022-03-22 09:02:46

Cheri, who was watching at home last weekend, went to Michelle Pfeiffer. Madame Olenska in "The Age of Innocence" has always been my favorite, but after 16 years, Lea (played by Pfeiffer) in "Cheri" is still old, with a painfully thin face. Specially went to check Michelle's birthday, born in 1958, no wonder. From "The Reader" to this "Cheri", has year-end love begun to emerge? After all, "Cheri" is a romantic film. And romantic films have always been the top of Pfeiffer's mountain. I can safely tell those who like Pfeiffer's past routines, "Cheri" is still the same flavor, Pfeiffer's routines. The director seems to have made a special division of labor for the male and female protagonists. Pfeiffer is responsible for the interpretation of pure love, which is very temperament and deep-seated feelings; Gates is responsible for the story. A playboy + a small child should be like that. From the plot arrangement (personally, I think the script is exquisite, people are not talking about love, the story really begins when Cheri married someone else) to the narrative rhythm, from screen editing to sound effects, it can be said to be comprehensive and thoughtful. The director is Stephen Frears, who turned out to be the director of "Dangerous Liaisons" (also starring Pfeiffer). I re-read the Age of Innocence earlier this year, and the mood at that time was very different from now. Who would have thought that today, it would be such a situation? In any case, I am very satisfied to find this one among a bunch of pseudo-literary films. Bloody recommended here.

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Chéri quotes

  • Cheri: Nounoune.

    Lea de Lonval: Chéri.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: We may think ourselves familiar in this day and age with the notion that whores of every description can very easily achieve fame and fortune. But towards the end of the 19th century, there what came to be known in France as the "Belle Epoque", a select group of courtesans, who became for a short period, the most celebrated and powerful women in the long history of prostitution.