What an interesting selection of films. Friday night was 92 minutes of Cheri with Michelle Pfeiffer and direct by Christopher Hampton. It seems amazing that it was 21 years ago that the two of them worked together on Dangerous Liaisons. They use a picture of her from Dangerous Liaisons in the film, showing her younger self. The film is based on the 1920’s novels by Colette set in 1900 Paris. Pfeiffer’s character Lea is asked by an old friend played very well by Kathy Bates to ‘educate’ her immature 19 year old son. There begins a 6 year affair between them, until his mother finds him a bride. Neither can live apart from each other. The story is very sumptuous to look at. The costumes particularly Michelle Pfeiffer’s. In the end the story with the ending is very unsatisfactory. It is very slow and the film seems very long.
Star Trek on the other hand goes very quickly. The film is shot with a lot of lighting flare, which does add to the action but makes a lot of the scenes indistinct. The story is well told, directed by JJ Abrams who wrote Lost on TV. My wife who knows nothing about Star Trek enjoyed it and so did I as there were a lot of references back to the old series. Simon Pegg played the part of Scotty adding a touch of humor to the film.
This film has given new life to the old franchise which is now over 40 years old.
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