Rolling Stone: Cheri Review

By Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Excerpt
June 24, 2009

As a cougar chasing a teen twink: That's a crass précis for the elegant, witty pleasures that Pfeiffer, director Stephen Frears and writer Christopher Hampton - who last collaborated on 1988's Dangerous Liaisons - carve out of this tale by the French novelist Colette. Set in Paris in the early 1900s, the film begins as retired courtesan Léa (Pfeiffer) enters into a six-year affair with Cheri...

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