The Cherry Orchard
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Movie Reviews of The Cherry Orchard
Movie Review: Chekov's Prophetic Play brought to the screen
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a study of Russia at the turn of the 20th Century and focuses on the three typical classes of the period. The Russian Aristocracy, The rising Middle Class and the future of Revolutionary Russia are all implied in characters that gather at the estate of Ms. Rampling who celebrates amid the knowledge that the estate will be sold to pay debts. It is a long play and therefore a long movie(137 minutes). You have to be a literature fan to appreciate it and I would not suggest it to anyone who has not read the play or is not familiar with Russian history. Each character is longing for something beyond what is the current reality and it is a story of the death of a way of life and hints at change not necessarily for the better. It is beautifully filmed! It is also very quiet and you have to keep your ear tuned to the conversations. If you love Chekov, you will want to see it but you may or may not fall in love with it.Movie Review: Uttery depressing
Summary: 2 Stars
I will first admit I watched this movie for Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera, Dracula 2000). But of course watched the whole movie. The characters are all insane! The mother never seems to really understand that she's goin to lose everything because of her previous foolishness with money until the house is bought by her older daughter's suiter, who plans to tear the whole place down. The uncle tries to be helpful, but even he's clueless until it's too late. Even Gerard's character is cruel. And the ending is utterly sad because it shows how thoughtless they all are. I will leave out why, because I want the watcher to see what I mean. This is truely a sad and depressing movie.Movie Review: Hard to Like
Summary: 2 Stars
If Woody Allen were to do another satire of Russian Lit (viz a viz Love and Death), he could do no better than to fashion it after this abysmal offering. I love Chekhov. I don't claim to have known him personally, but trust me, this is no Chekhov. I have no clue what the director was after: Comedy? Farce? Melodrama? Soap Opera? Well, he has followed several of those threads, but actual Chekhov? Nay, nay, I say.
To have assembled such a promising cast and to get such risible performances out of them must surely be some sort of achievemant in it's own right. I don't believe they give Oscars out for that, but they do give Harvard Lampoon Awards.
BEK
Movie Review: "The Cherry Bomb" as we used to say.
Summary: 2 Stars
Correct me if I'm wrong (and please do) but didn't Tovarich Chekov himself say this play was a comedy bordering on farce? Can someone please recommend where to find such a version !!?
WD
Movie Review: What a disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
I remember seeing this film a couple of years ago at a Greek Film Festival.
With such a great cast I expected something special.
Have you ever been to see a film and after seeing it, thought to yourself that there was something really wrong with the film but you couldn't put your finger on it? Well, that's what I feel about this movie. The only saving grace was the splendid cinematography.
There was something seriously wrong with the performances. Somehow the director failed to get great performances from his actors.
It is one of the few films that I was tempted to leave before it finished.