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CHERI

By Stephen FREARS

TOKYU BUNKAMURA INC. - as DISTR Theatrical

Drama - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Director(s)
- Stephen FREARS
- Writer(s)
- Christopher HAMPTON
- Cast
- Felicity JONES, Kathy BATES, Michelle PFEIFFER, Rupert FRIEND
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-2A25-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- EIDR
- 10.5240/67B2-B0F1-8F51-F693-EFF0-U
- Producer(s)
- Bill KENWRIGHT, Tracey SEAWARD
- Synopsis
- Set in the Luxurious demi-monde of pre First World War Paris, Chéri is the story of the love affair between the beautiful retired courtesan Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Chéri (Rupert Friendp the son of her old colleague and rival, Mme Pelous (Kathy Bates). Léa has educated the spoilt and callow boy in the ways of love, but after six years Mme Peloux has secretyl arranged éa marriage between Chéri and Edmée (Felicity Jones) daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Léa and Chéri try to come to terms with their imminent separation, but the roots of their life of ease and pleasure reach deeper than even they imagine and they begin to understand, too late, how much their mean to one another.