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 "It's not a bit stagy, yet it manages to be dazzling theater."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"While Cacoyannis' film may not be totally faithful to the master's pen, for literature students and theater lovers, this Cherry Orchard is a rare treat."
-- Marta Barber, MIAMI HERALD
"Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music."
-- Misha Berson, SEATTLE TIMES
"This story tutors us in the practices of kindness and compassion for those caught up in the trauma of change and loss.
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-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
 "The irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"One of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret."
-- David Jays, SIGHT AND SOUND
"Chekhov has never looked or sounded better."
-- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN
"... a confusing drudgery."
-- Jordan Reed, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"... wise and elegiac ..."
-- Wendy Weinstein, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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ROTTEN 38%
Avg. Rating: 6.6/10 |
"Allegiance to Chekhov, which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, is a particularly vexing handicap."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Cherry Orchard is badly edited, often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story.'"
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Essential viewing for lovers of Chekhov."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility."
-- Jonathan Perry, BOSTON GLOBE
"Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years."
-- John Petrakis, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in Jane Hamilton's exemplary costumes, Rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Ms. Rampling, still beautiful well into her 50s, has an earth-bound weariness and lively spirit that convey a life fully and tragically lived."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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