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06/24/06
The Cherry Orchard (2002)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:14
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is too tedious to hold interest.
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Lyubov (Charlotte Rampling) is brought home to her Russian estate after having fled to France amidst family tragedy. Returning home in 1900 after the liberation of the serfs, nothing seems to have... [More]
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Owen Teale, Katrin Cartlidge, Alan Bates
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Reviews for The Cherry Orchard
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12/30/06
Top CriticOne of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret.
12/03/02
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06/25/03
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06/25/03
Top CriticThe new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'
07/11/02
A sometimes tedious film.
05/24/02
Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness.
04/26/02
No review available.
06/29/05
Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years.
04/04/02
Cherry Orchard is badly edited, often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story.'
02/22/02
Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility.
05/31/02
... a confusing drudgery.
02/25/02
The irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own.
02/22/02
Allegiance to Chekhov, which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, is a particularly vexing handicap.
02/19/02
Cacoyannis' vision is far less mature, interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts.
05/09/02
Ms. Rampling, still beautiful well into her 50s, has an earth-bound weariness and lively spirit that convey a life fully and tragically lived.
06/20/02
This story tutors us in the practices of kindness and compassion for those caught up in the trauma of change and loss.
02/24/02
Chekhov has never looked or sounded better.
10/21/02
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