CHERI

Based on the novels by Colette
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Stephen Frears

Michelle Pfeiffer
Rupert Friend
Kathy Bates

Premiere date: February 10, 2009 (Berlin International Film Festival)
R for some sexual content and brief drug use.

A ravishing Parisian courtesan takes a naive young man half her age into her boudoir to teach him a thing or two about women. But of course, he learns all too well and turns out to be her perfect match. He doeesn't want to grow up and she doesn't want to grow old and together they defy all of society's rules. Their affair is pure pleasure - as they trade light-hearted romantic barbs and indulge in their delicious, upside-down chemistry - until the do the one thing that will make an outrage of it all, most significantly to themselves: fall in love. And gradually they come to see there will be weighty consequences of this unusual affair.

Read the Book First

A list of some of the books that will bear those "now a major motion picture" stickers later this year. This isn't all of them, by any means. Just the ones I'm particularly interested in. If you're like me, and you like to have read the book before you see the film adaptation, check out a few of these titles in the coming months.

Cheri, by Collette. June 26th.

Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, by Bryan Burrough. July 1st.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling. July 15th.

Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane. October 2nd.

The Informant, by Kurt Eichenwald. October 9th.

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. October 16th.

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. October 16th.

Precious, based on the novel Push, by Sapphire. November 6th.

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. December 11th.