Chéri (film)

Vous avez vu ce film, Chéri, Non? Well if you haven't seen that film, you should. It was a beautiful movie. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

It was about a young man, referred to as Chéri, who falls in love with an aging courtesan, Lea, who is the friend of his retired courtesan mother. This love has it's ups and downs. After spending many years with Lea, Chéri's mother forces him to marry a very young and beautiful bride, Edmée. With this Chéri becomes reclusive and begins running back between his his first love and his new wife. By the end of the film, Chéri is so torn by the fact that the woman he idolises is aging and the fact that he will have to take on adult responsibilities if he stays with his young wife that he befriends his old service revolver and puts one bullet into his brain.

I loved this movie. It is the 2009 version. I have yet to see the 1950s film adaptation or the television adaptations from 1962 and 1973. Anywho next blog is about the romance novelist, Colette. She was the brilliant mind who allowed this beautiful story to leak from her pen.