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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One of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret. Full Review |
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In capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating, genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills, the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st. Full Review |
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Chekhov has never looked or sounded better. Full Review |
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3/4 |
While Cacoyannis' film may not be totally faithful to the master's pen, for literature students and theater lovers, this Cherry Orchard is a rare treat. Full Review |
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The new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.' Full Review |
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Ms. Rampling, still beautiful well into her 50s, has an earth-bound weariness and lively spirit that convey a life fully and tragically lived. Full Review |
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Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A sometimes tedious film. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music. Full Review |
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It's not a bit stagy, yet it manages to be dazzling theater. Full Review |
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Looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in Jane Hamilton's exemplary costumes, Rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective.
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