Chéri - A comedy of vanities
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chéri - A comedy of vanities |
| Original title | Cheri |
| Country of production | Great Britain , Germany , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephen Frears |
| script | Christopher Hampton |
| production |
Andras Hamori Bill Kenwright Thom Mount Tracey Seaward |
| music | Alexandre Desplat |
| camera | Darius Khondji |
| cut | Lucia Zucchetti |
| occupation | |
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Chéri - A Comedy of Vanities (original title: Chéri ) is a British - German - French feature film from 2009. The film was based on the novel Chéri by Colette .
action
The film takes place in the Belle Époque in France . The courtesans Léa de Lonval and Madame Peloux achieved immeasurable wealth during this time. Chéri is the son of Madame Peloux - a handsome 19 year old man. Surrounded by luxury and little protected by his mother, he got to know the nightlife of Paris at an early age and is now tired of the numerous affairs. The much older Léa takes care of him. She is his motherly friend and lover. They stayed together for six years until Madame Peloux arranged for her son to marry the rich and young courtesan's daughter Edmée. Chéri complies and leaves Léa. To her own astonishment, she finds out that she has fallen in love with Chéri and is unhappy. She seeks solace on a trip to Biarritz , during which she has a brief affair with a young man who is no substitute for Chéri. But she plays the proud seductress towards Madame Peloux and does not reveal her lovesickness. Chéri is bored of Edmée and jealous of Léa's new lover, whom he found out about through rumors. He gives himself back to the Parisian nightlife and moves into the hotel. In Biarritz, Léa receives news that Chéri has left his wife and she returns to Paris. When he hears about it, he moves back in with his young wife, believing he can start a three-way relationship. He visits Léa and suggests to her that he has come back for good. Both confess their love to each other and Léa plans their future together. In the end, however, she sees through him and makes him realize that he can only have her and not both. At the same time, Chéri realizes that he has emancipated himself from Léa, that he is tired of the paternalism and her age. He leaves her without looking back.
The narrator reports that much later, Chéri realizes that Léa is the only woman he can love. Knowing this, he commits suicide.
background
Chéri - A Comedy of Vanities started in the US on June 26, 2009 and in German cinemas on August 27, 2009. The German premiere took place on February 10, 2009 as part of the 59th Berlinale .
Reviews
"Snappy dialogues, insidious phrases, malicious compliments, these are the manners in the circle of aging courtesans who keep each other company because the other society doesn't interact with them, at least in public - and that is, besides the costumes and the splendid ones Equipment, the whole harmless attraction of "Chéri". "
"Magnificently furnished, elegantly filmed and with a still enchanting Michelle Pfeiffer and a wonderfully capricious Rupert Friend in the leading roles, Chéri captivates with dialog wit, elegance and a lightness that is in no way inferior to the abundant flowing champagne in this film."
“Michelle Pfeiffer is so great and beautiful and dignified that she should effortlessly silence any Hollywood fanatic of youth mania - more mature women make the better stories and often the better pictures. And Frears indulges in costumes and clothes that make your eyes go away. "
“Above all else, Chéri is one thing: elegant. This applies to the decorations and costumes as well as the narrative. Even in the opening credits, a speaker with a smug tone sums up the historical highlights of courtesanism and reveals a rhetorical accuracy that is later continued in the dialogues. "
synchronization
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Cheri | Rupert Friend | Tobias Nath |
| Lea de Lonval | Michelle Pfeiffer | Katja Nottke |
| Edmée | Felicity Jones | Jill Cooper |
| rose | Frances Tomelty | Sonja German |
| teller | Stephen Frears |
Peter Fricke Judy Winter |
| La Loupiote | Harriet Walter | Marianne Lutz |
| Marie Laure | Iben Hjejle | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Viscomte Desmond | Tom Burke | Sebastian Schulz |
| Madame Roland | Natasha Cashman | Ana Fonell |
| Madame Aldonza | Nichola McAuliffe | Heidrun Bartholomäus |
| Marcel | Joe Sheridan | Axel Lutter |
| La Copine | Anita Pallenberg | Katarina Tomaschewsky |
| Baronne | Bette Bourne | Reinhard Kuhnert |
Dialogue script and direction: Dr. Beate Klöckner
German distributor: Prokino Filmverleih GmbH
Synchronous production: Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH
literature
- Interview with Stephen Frears in the Berliner Zeitung, August 27, 2009, issue 199, Kulturkalender, p. K02
Web links
- Chéri in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Chéri - A Comedy of Vanities . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 748 K).
- ↑ Chéri - A Comedy of Vanities in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Release dates on Internet Movie Database , accessed February 23, 2014.
- ↑ Film review on Critic.de
- ↑ Chéri - A Comedy of Vanities in the German dubbing index , accessed on January 6, 2013.