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Chéri

In a game of seduction, never fall in love.

This period piece revolves around the dangers of playing with your feelings. A young man becomes involved with an older courtesan. What initially was meant to be just sex quickly morphs into love. Things get complicated when he has to end the relationship to marry someone his own age. This is when the two lovers begin to understand what they have done to themselves.

90 minutes, No persons under 16 (Sex, Nudity)
Drama, Period piece, Romance, On the art circuit

Credits

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer, Frances Tomelty, Tom Burke, Rupert Friend, Hubert Tellegen, Joe Sheridan, Kathy Bates

Director

Stephen Frears

Screenplay

Christopher Hampton, based on the novels by Colette

Music

Alexandre Desplat

Cinematography

Darius Khondji

Editing

Lucia Zucchetti

Sound formats

Dolby Digital

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2009

Produced by

A consortium of European companies

SA Distributor

Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama, romance
Language	Very mild, infrequent
Nudity	Sexul nudity, long shots, breasts and buttocks
Sex	Strong sex and sexual conduct, frequent, high impact
Violence	Reference to suicide
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Some tobacco smoking, references to drugs, briefly implied, infrequent
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

International Media

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson Twenty-one years after getting in bed together for Dangerous Liaisons, the team of Michelle Pfeiffer, writer Christopher Hampton and director Stephen Frears reconvene for a spotty but sufficiently sprightly take on two novels by Colette.

Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs While it might rack up some award nominations for its sets, costumes and such, it's too bad the writing, directing and acting don't match all of the hours and hard work that obviously went into making this pretty, but pretty boring offering.

Metacritic.com27 critics

RottenTomatoes.com116 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer A too-short script and a romance lacking in heat detracts from an otherwise haughty charmer.

Internet (IMDB)1868 Netizens Sanitized Colette

Average .. 62%

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