You may know Colette as the author of Gigi. Collete's scandals include onstage lesbianism and a divorce over an affair with her step son. Like Woody Allen she lays it all bare. Cheri, eyes like sole, is green around the gills. Michelle Pfieffer will serve as his old tutor d'amour, but with none of the debauch of the Dangerous Liasons film alas.
Colette delights in showing the sometimes spiteful resourcefulness of society women. In Fin de Cheri she contrasts Pfieffer's resilience with the fragile spleen of the man-boy Cheri. "Let's just take it one day at a time, shall we?" It is hard to feel for the tiresome Cheri, or even for the old courtisans drinking their solitude away in grand chateaux. "Three hundred and twenty francs for vaseline. What does Ernest do, drink it?"
Colette delights in showing the sometimes spiteful resourcefulness of society women. In Fin de Cheri she contrasts Pfieffer's resilience with the fragile spleen of the man-boy Cheri. "Let's just take it one day at a time, shall we?" It is hard to feel for the tiresome Cheri, or even for the old courtisans drinking their solitude away in grand chateaux. "Three hundred and twenty francs for vaseline. What does Ernest do, drink it?"
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