Cheri, at the first, was a project originally started by Jessica Lange. The actress had been for years trying to get the book Cheri 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, DailyMail 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

Original Title: Cheri
Year of production: 2008
Genre: Drama | Romance.

Starting of filming: April 14, 2008.

Michelle Pfeiffer - Lea de Lonval
Rupert Friend - Cheri
Kathy Bates - Madame Peloux
Felicity Jones - Edmee
Frances Tomelty - Rose
Anita Pallenberg - La Copine
Harriet Walter - La Loupiote
Iben Hjejle - Marie Laure
Jason Thornton - Oswald
Rollo Weeks - Guido
Tom Burke - Vicomte Desmond
Hubert Tellegen - Ernest

Directed by Stephen Frears
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton based on the novel "Cheri " by Colette
Produced by Bill Kenwright, Thom Mount, Andras Hamori and Tracey Seaward
Co-produced by Ralf Schmitz
Executive production by Simon Fawcett, Christopher Hampton, François Ivernel, Cameron McCracken, Richard Temple and Jessica Lange
Direction of Photography by Darius Khondji
Production Design by Alan MacDonald
Set Decoration by Judy Farr and Véronique Melery
Original Music by Alexandre Desplat
Editing by Lucia Zucchetti
Casting by Victoria Thomas
Costume Design by Consolata Boyle
Makeup Department Daniel Phillips

Production Companies: Bill Kenwright Films and Reliant Pictures.

Distribution Comanies: Miramax Films, Pathé and The Weinstein Company.

Adaptation of the 1920s novel by French author Colette about the lingering effects of a romance between a middle-aged woman and a wealthy young man. Colette set her book in 1920s Paris, where the young son of a wealthy courtesan is educated in the ways of love by a middle-aged friend of the man's mother. When he is forced to give up the six-year relationship after marrying someone else, the young man can't forget her and retreats into a fantasy world.

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