Original Title: Chéri Year of Production: 2008 Runtime: 100 min Country: UK | France | Germany Genre: Drama | Romance Filming Dates: April 14, 2008 (starting) | June, 2008 (finishing) Release Date: February 10, 2009 (Berlin Film Festival – World Premiere) Budget: N/A Gross: $2,715,657 (USA) | N/A (Total International)

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Cheri, at the first, was a project originally started by Jessica Lange. The actress had been for years trying to get the book Chèri by Colette made into a film, and a few years back she managed through Bill Kenwright to get Christopher Hampton to write the screenplay.

Up to May of 2007 they were ready to start production after she finished her run of the play The Glass Menagerie in the West End, but when the director Stephen Frears came on board she was told that at 58 years of age she is too old to play the 50 years old heroine of the book, so they asked her to leave.

In the middle January in 2008, Daily Mail leaked that Stephen Frears was interested on Michelle Pfeiffer to head the cast and that he was wooing her.

Let’s remember that Frears directing, Pfeiffer acting and Hampton on the script got a great success with Dangerous Liaisons. Cheri would be the reunion of the trio after twenty years.

Finally the following month Variety announced the news so waited for pfans, Michelle Pfeiffer was in the final negotiations to star in the movie. In April, the movie began the filming in Biarritz, South of France.

Sources: PfeifferTheFace.com, DailyMail, Variety, IMDb

Cast

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Plot Summary

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 Friend) the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates).

Léa has educated the spoilt and callow boy in the ways of love, but after six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a 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 they mean to one another.

Filming Locations

Biarritz (France), Paris (France), Cologne (Germany) and London (UK)

Release Dates

Germany | February 10, 2009 (Berlin Film Festival)
France, Belgium and Switzerland (French) | April 8, 2009
Italy | April 30, 2009
UK | May 8, 2009
USA | June 26, 2009
Australia | July 23, 2009
Germany and Switzerland (German) | August 27, 2009
Portugal | 24 September 2009
Hungary and Israel | 3 December 2009
Brazil | 11 December 2009
Spain | January 29, 2010

International Titles

Cheri | USA (Original Title)
Askim | Turkey
Chéri – Eine Komödie der Eitelkeiten | Germany
Curtezana | Romania
Dorogusha | Russia

Links

Chéri Official Site - Uk
Chéri Official Site - France
Chéri Official Site - USA
Chéri Official Site - Germany
Chéri at Miramax – USA

IMDb
Wikipedia

Chéri at Gorgeous Pfeiffer

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