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Charlotte Gray

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Jeremy Brock
Sebastian Faulks (novel)
Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 28, 2001
DVD: July 9, 2002
Running Time: 121 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany / UK / Australia
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some war related violence, sensuality and brief strong language
Starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, John Pierce Jones, and Rupert Penry-Jones
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. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Has an intoxicating, old-fashioned feel about it. We are instantly lost in the period, thanks to cinematographer Dion Beebe's almost haloed images and Joseph Bennett's authentic, restrained production design.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Charlotte Gray is not a subtle movie, but it is an honorable and surprisingly gripping one.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Cate Blanchett has the title role, and she does wonders with it, bringing a degree of passion but also suggesting something essentially unevolved in Charlotte's character.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Displays so much promise with its beautiful cinematography and superb portrayal by Cate Blanchett that you scarcely notice (or even care) that the story is a bit thin.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
An old-fashioned romantic adventure film strongly acted, ably directed and written with stolid sobriety, the film feels, save for a few moments of verbal or physical intensity, as if it could have been made 60 years ago with Ingrid Bergman in the lead.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This is a movie that, for all its often high intelligence and skill, seems emotionally underdone, bogged down in tony literary and cinematic cliches.
ReelViews James Berardinelli
From a purely technical perspective, Charlotte Gray is expertly made -- the cinematography and music are evocative, and lead actress Cate Blanchett has no problem holding our attention. But, while Armstrong gets the notes right, she fails to play them with inspiration.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Michael Dequina
The radiant Blanchett makes Charlotte's individual journey from lovelorn lady to independent woman believable and involving, and that's ultimately what counts the most -- even if the destination is less than ideal.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Not a movie, it's a museum catalog of gorgeously rendered portraits and landscapes. What a crashing disappointment.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A frustratingly inert story, a bookend to last year's wooden ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin.''
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Armstrong is fortunate to have the luminous Blanchett, who, along with her equally fine supporting cast, helps compensate for what the film lacks.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story has inherent emotional power, but Jeremy Brock's formula-bound screenplay rarely soars beyond cliches.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's ultimately just numb, a sober wartime romance roused only by Blanchett's intensity and Crudup's passionate swings between righteous anger and moral zeal. The rest is just tired melodrama.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Blanchett, Crudup and Gambon stand above and somehow apart from the absurdities of the screenplay.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Director Gillian Armstrong drains all the emotional energy out of the people who dot her movie's lovely landscape.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
The narrative is unexpectedly sleepy, excepting the occasional flashy set piece.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The setting and circumstances of the war overwhelm the personal story and diminish the dilemma of the title character's love life.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Rarely has a movie that looked so good on paper fallen so flat as the aptly named Charlotte Gray. It's not a bad movie. Bad movies have more flavor.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
Those who do go with the fantasy are probably hopeless romantics.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Undone by Blanchett's dull, wooden delivery. She's the pap that kills the pulp the rest of the film is bellowing out to be.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer
Never rises above the level of a 1950s-era adolescent romance novel.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A bland and dour screen version of Sebastian Faulks' highly engrossing bestseller.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
I never thought that a thoughtful director like Gillian Armstrong would get trapped in such Euro-nonsense, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
It isn't as ridiculous as this year's other version of a local best seller set during WWII ("Captain Corelli's Mandolin"), but it's arguably even less entertaining.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The movie works so diligently to convey a spirit of heroic uplift and fails so completely that it feels like a tragic misfire.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Director Gillian Armstrong turns Sebastian Faulks' pungent novel about World War II into a soporific.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
lia gave it a10:
I Love it.
L cray gave it a 9:
Blanchette is great - very convincing. The story line, although a little "thin", its setting and cinematography is excellent.
