4.0
out of 100
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The success of Stephen Frears' film Chri begins with its casting. Michelle Pfeiffer, as Lea de Lonval, is still a great beauty.
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Pfeiffer transcends any hint of clich ''cougar'' voraciousness.
Actors blossom under Frears' direction. There is no false moment or off-key note in this movie.
Michelle Pfeiffer is back, and her reappearance in Cheri, her best role in quite some time, underlines not only how much she's been missed but also how much the world of film has lost by her absence.
Cheri, like the character, is an entertaining bauble without much on its mind.
There's something poignant about the image of this actress (Pfeiffer) sitting in a pool of sunlight without a smile or trace of visible makeup. But she's trying to reach a character that her director seems intent to keep from her grasp.
Like a passable bottle of champagne, Cheri fizzes and slides down quite easily but lacks real body and doesn't really hit the spot.
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Sometimes love is boring.
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