
	Where results make sense

Topic: Charlotte Gray (film)

Related Topics

National Film Registry

silent film

horror film

documentary film

Musical film

Cannes Film Festival

list of years in film

Best Film Editing

film noir

comedy film

cult film

In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)

Damian Green

Sumner Redstone

Crimson Tide

Tommy Tuberville

Bill Clinton

Wayne Rooney

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Wake Forest

Grand Slam

Oklahoma State

	Charlotte Gray film review
		The film's grand themes and setting are all housed within a small framework, focussing the effects of war on the domestic pain and upheaval it inflicts.
		Given the new identity of Dominique, Gray is parachuted into Nazi occupied France where she is assigned the role of housemaid in the rural home of the grouchy Levade (Michael Gambon).
		The film's romantic thread, though integral, is not developed fully enough to sustain the action that relies heavily on un-enthralling subplots involving two orphans entrusted to Levade and the exploits of the Resistance.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/charlotte_gray.html (503 words)

	Shades of Blue and Grey \| News
		There is a scene in Charlotte Gray, the new film from Australian director Gillian Armstrong, which is possibly an apt metaphor for her cinematic work ethic.
		Sheâs weathered the male-dominated milieu of film with such silence and intent to focus on the film itself, that perhaps she has not been quite aware of the studio brass that have come up marching behind her.
		Charlotte Gray is not cumulative of her other films, but there is a substantial palette of color and design that marks the film as Armstrongâs.
	www.seattlefilm.org /news/detail.aspx?NID=10&year=2002 (1434 words)

	Charlotte Gray
		Charlotte has grown up in Scotland, moved to England, and lives in France under an assumed name during the occupation, and the layers to the lie that she lives are always threatening to reveal themselves.
		During Charlotte’s enlistment process, she is asked if she might be romanticizing the notion of war a bit, and while she gives answers that suggest she isn’t, her ability to do just that proves to be her saving grace.
		Charlotte’s story might feel large to her, but the movie seems to acknowledge there’s much more to this story than Charlotte might realize, without ever resorting to newsreel accountings of outside events.
	www.geocities.com /nyfilmfest/2001/charlottegray.htm (504 words)

	Charlotte Gray (2001)
		Charlotte Gray opens in London of 1942, with the titular Scottish heroine (played by Cate Blanchett) falling immediately and deeply in love with a Royal Air Force pilot named Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones) after meeting briefly at a cocktail party.
		As Charlotte becomes increasingly involved with the Resistance — and Julien — she begins to fear that she's being manipulated to further a secret agenda.
		Charlotte Gray is the story of an intelligent woman's self-discovery, a theme that fits neatly alongside the director's previous, superior films: My Brilliant Career, High Tide, and Little Women.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=131750&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (669 words)

	DVD.net : Charlotte Gray - DVD Review
		Filmed in and around the medieval French village of St Antonen, the striking, textured locations are a reason to see the film in and of themselves.
		Charlotte Gray is a film for which the term visual feast was coined, and this digital treatment by Universal certainly does not disappoint.
		Charlotte Gray, with its wonderful performances from Cate and co., is genuinely entertaining drama and I thoroughly recommend it to all.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1980 (1495 words)

	CHARLOTTE GRAY
		It begins with Charlotte being recruited by the government because she speaks fluid French and is familiar with the country.
		Charlotte initially believes that as well, but a string of unfortunate events soon reveals a secret, ugly reason behind her presence there.
		It's hard to connect with Charlotte because we never get a clear sense of who she really is. Blanchett tries to make her distinct and compelling, but the story leaves her high and dry.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsC/f_charlotte_gray.html (904 words)

	Charlotte Gray
		Charlotte proceeds to seriously botch her first job, causing her contact's death at the hands of the Nazis when she delays the woman to inquire about the whereabouts of Gregory.
		Charlotte begins to work with Julien's resistance group, but once again causes lives to be lost, this time unwittingly.
		While "Charlotte Gray" can be an infuriating film at times, with its heroine who not once, but twice, travels a great distance on behalf of a man who may not be committed to her or even alive, it does feature subplots that make it worthwhile.
	www.reelingreviews.com /charlottegray.htm (542 words)

	Blockbuster Online - Film Festivals
		Twentysomething Charlotte is married to John (Giovanni Ribisi), a successful photographer who is in Tokyo on an assignment, leaving her to while away her time while he works.
		Meanwhile, Charlotte is puzzled with how much John has changed in their two years of marriage, while she's been unable to launch a creative career of her own.
		Bob and Charlotte become fast friends, and as they explore Tokyo, they begin to wonder if their sudden friendship might be growing into something more.
	www.blockbuster.com /browse/collections/filmFestivals (1278 words)

	Charlotte Gray (2002) - Channel 4 Film review
		Be they about straight-up machismo or the traumatic horrors of war, the films have been all about men bombing and bonding.
		Charlotte Gray (Blanchett) is a young Scottish woman who moves to London to do her part for the war effort.
		Officially on a courier mission, Charlotte is parachuted into the French Free Zone, controlled by the Nazi-mollifying Vichy Government, where she meets the local Resistance cell led by Julien (Crudup, Almost Famous).
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=101961 (269 words)

	Charlotte Gray
		Gray is a British woman who falls in love with Peter Gregory (Rupert Penry-Jones, Virtual Sexuality, Still Crazy), a pilot.
		Gray acts as a courier for the British and helps Lavade and his Allies in their small battles against the Nazis.
		In Charlotte Gray, Armstrong was trying to make a movie dealing with grand themes like love and loss, but fails to achieve these lofty goals.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/charlotte_gray.html (563 words)

	Charlotte Gray (2001) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		Charlotte Gray is missing the fire and excitement usually present in wartime films, but Cate Blanchett is marvelous nonetheless.
		Given that the film takes place during the second world war, in the south of France where the Vichy government ruled the "cooperative" side of France, the emotion in the film should have been more intense.
		The emotion of these character is never high enough and since the film doesn't include time spent on the front lines or other high intensity scenes, some emotional exchanges between Charlotte and her co-stars would have been welcome.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/charlottegray.html (890 words)

	Animal Logic: Film - Charlotte Gray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VFX producer Sarah Dowland explains that in Charlotte Gray the titles are an integral part of the film that serve as a motif for the whole narrative.
		For this reason, the titles were intended to be strong and bold, not flowery, feminine or romantic.
		"They were to represent the tougher-side of Charlotte Gray and the war-time sentiment," says Bennetts.
	www.animallogic.com /film/chgray/page2.html (195 words)

	Amazon.com: Charlotte Gray: DVD: Cate Blanchett,James Fleet,Abigail Cruttenden,Charlotte McDougall,Rupert ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since repeated references are made to Charlotte's fluent French, it is hard to maintain any suspension of disbelief when she parachutes into Lezignac and we discover that the French resistance fighters she works with speak English with alternately French or British accents (while the Nazis continue to speak German without subtitles).
		CHARLOTTE GRAY is a much maligned movie, perhaps due to the fact that we are actively in a war state at present, a war state that is grossly dissimilar from the tenor of WWII.
		Charlotte manages to escape back to bombed out London and meets her fighter pilot paramour whom she had believed to be dead, KIA (killed in action).
	www.amazon.com /Charlotte-Gray-Cate-Blanchett/dp/B00005U8PC (3149 words)

	Charlotte Gray (2001): Reviews
		Set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II, Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman (Blanchett) working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot.
		Charlotte Gray is not a subtle movie, but it is an honorable and surprisingly gripping one.
		Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/charlottegray (747 words)

	Film på TV - Dagens Film - Dit TV overblik
		Tilmeld dig her og deltag samtidig i konkurrencer om film og biografbilletter.
		DagensFilm.dk tilbyder også et gratis nyhedsbrev, hvor du vil få dagens film direkte i din indbakke mandag til fredag.
		Modtager du nyhedsbrevet, deltager du samtidig i den månedlige konkurrence, hvor du kan vinde film relaterede ting som f.eks.
	www.dagensfilm.dk (1937 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: CHARLOTTE GRAY
		Case in point is "Charlotte Gray," an old-fashioned romantic war drama that could have been a terrific picture.
		Although the film's visuals and Blanchett's presence and performance certainly prevent the film from being torturous to sit through, the whole thing lacks the requisite spark or oomph to make the proceedings interesting, let alone sizzle like they should.
		Although some diehard romantics might be swept away by the film's old-fashioned, dramatic romance angle, its various problems are likely to prevent most viewers from falling under the spell of this mostly disappointingly and surprisingly flat offering.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2001/charlotte_gray.html (1277 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Charlotte Gray
		Adapted from the novel by Sebastian Faulks, 'Charlotte Gray' sees Cate Blanchett playing a young Scottish woman who risks her life for some RAF toff, in an adaptation that is often confused as to whether it's a love story set in wartime, or a war story with a love angle.
		Yet, although Charlotte's urge to go to France is borne out on her desire to locate Greogry, the film pays only lip service to the pilot from now on, and instead focuses on Gray's increasing involvement with a band of resistance fighters in the south of France.
		The humanity of the wartime story is anchored in Gray's role as surrogate guardian to two Jewish boys whose parents have been arrested by the Gestapo.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2002/0221/charlottegray.html (616 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Charlotte Gray" review (2001) Gillian Armstrong, Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup
		Early in the film she meets an English pilot so generically handsome and one-dimensional that the moment you lay eyes on him, you know she's going to fall for someone else within a couple reels.
		Wonderful has been lost over Southern France, Charlotte is ripe for recruitment when she meets a bookish spymaster who learns she speaks fluent French and nudge-nudge-wink-winks her to sign up as a spy.
		Burdened by guilt and trapped in an occupied village, Charlotte is protected by local resistance fighters, falling in love with one of them as she helps hide Jewish children and blow up Nazi trains.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/charlottegray.html (710 words)

	Charlotte Gray (2001): Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Rupert Penry Jones - PopMatters Film Review
		The good news is that Charlotte Gray is a far better film than The Man Who Cried, despite the fact that the Aussie actress's French accent here is as labored as her Russian one in Potter's film.
		This is not only because of the rigorous basic training and cultural education Charlotte and her co-spies must undergo, but also because of the incipient gender politics of the whole situation, which is based on real-life cases of women spies.
		Not only does she slowly fall in love with the handsome insurgent (in the film's lamest plot device), but as she plies her spy-trade, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell exactly whom she is working for, or what she is being used to do.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/charlotte-gray1.shtml (1166 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Blanchett's resourceful Charlotte Gray
		But her role in Charlotte Gray is much more of a showcase for her prodigious talents.
		Charlotte Gray is the first film to emerge from a co-production alliance between FilmFour, in the UK, and Warner Bros, a top Hollywood studio.
		Unless Charlotte Gray receives some strong critical endorsements and positive word-of-mouth in the next few days, it will be hard for it make significant headway at the US box office, where it is up against whole raft of end-of-year releases competing for attention.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/film/1731524.stm (794 words)

	Review: Charlotte Gray
		The film suffers from CCC (Captain Corelli's Chocolat), a prettifying disease that affects cinematographers.
		Charlotte is told, "If I was you, I'd keep your knickers on and your trap shut." This is her contact speaking, a crook from Birmingham, who has a bad attitude towards the whole of humanity.
		Charlotte is almost too good to be true.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/c/charlotte_gray_2001.shtml (494 words)

	Charlotte Gray by Stephen Warbeck @ Cinemusic Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In fact, Charlotte Gray is a great album for fans of any prior Warbeck album, and delivers much the same in terms of thematic development and variation (not necessarily variety in color or orchestration).
		Charlotte Gray is a relatively small, obscure period picture, and the score is a dark, melancholy work -- the kind that doesn't usually translate into an instant hit with film score nerds -- but it should.
		Charlotte Gray is a worthy additional to collections geared towards dramatic, well-thoughtout film music.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2001/charlotte_gray.html (620 words)

	Charlotte Gray (2001)
		Charlotte Gray is a good performance from her, but ultimately she does not completely nail the role like she did with the virgin queen back in 1998.
		To see this film in any other ratio would be an absolute shame and would diminish the film's overall effect on the viewer as it would feel much more congested and confined, failing to capture the beauty of the production.
		Film artefacts steadily appear through the film in the form of little marks of dirt and grime on the print.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=2135 (1506 words)

	"Charlotte Gray" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The character of Charlotte Gray is probably her strongest and most compelling lead since Elizabeth.
		Set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II, Charlotte Gray is the story of a young woman who joins the French Resistance in the hope of locating and rescuing her missing lover, a RAF pilot.
		Traveling to London for purposes of her own, Charlotte Gray is a quirky, beautiful, and intelligent Scottish girl who speaks French fluently and loves to read.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2003/charlottegray.html (827 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Charlotte Gray directed by Gillian Armstrong - reviewed by Tim Smedley
		Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a young Scottish woman living in London in 1943.
		Similarly the love interest between Charlotte and Julien does not descend into sentimental slush, but is again used to add to the texture of the film (perhaps Armstrong has learnt from the mistakes of John Madden's Captain Correlli's Mandolin).
		An awful film, tne normally very good Cate Blanchett struggles with her accent(she actually goes Irish at one point), and the film hardly does justice to a very serious subject.Disapointing.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/charlotte_gray.php (585 words)

	Animal Logic: Film - Charlotte Gray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Set in Nazi—occupied France at the height of World War II, Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot.
		Based on the best—selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, the story is brought to the screen by director Gillian Armstrong and producers Sarah Curtis and Douglas Rae.
		To bring alive a France and Britain of the 1940s, Armstrong came to Animal Logic Film, where long-time collaborator, VFX supervisor Belinda Bennetts put finishing touches on the picture of 40s Europe.
	www.animallogic.com /film/chgray/index.html (192 words)

	Charlotte Gray -war heroine
		Charlotte jumps at the chance of parachuting in as she has a hidden motive; to search for her lover, who is an airman missing in action after his plane has been shot down.
		Admittedly, there is a lack of realism in Charlotte's rapid transformation from secretary to resistance fighter, and in her ability to speak French so well that she can pass herself off as a local.
		However, Charlotte Gray is more about how individuals react to war, danger and moral dilemmas, and Blanchett displays a stunning ability to convey complex emotions as her character is torn between her official and unofficial agendas.
	mammj.bournemouth.ac.uk /Reviews/charlotteGray.html (293 words)

	Film: Charlotte Gray
		Charlotte Gray has the advantage of a ready-made reputation as the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
		Charlotte speaks French fluently and Cannerly wants her to be a spy.
		Charlotte's fluency in French is crucial to the story.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/film_reviews/article_1065.asp?s=1 (942 words)

	Charlotte Gray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Charlotte Gray (Blanchett) is an ordinary woman who travels from her native Scotland to London during the Blitz of 1942, intent on patriotic work.
		Charlotte is devastated when she hears his plane has been shot down over France.
		Soon, Charlotte is also on her way to France, for like many women fluent in French, she has been recruited by British intelligence to support the Resistance.
	www.toto.net /kcfilms/c-gray.html (610 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)