Director Stephen Frears, leading lady Michelle Pfeiffer, and screenwriter Christopher Hampton returns to the fertile, sharp-tongued ground they tilled in Dangerous Liasons. Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates play aging courtesans in turn of the century France in this adaptation of a couple Colette novels. Bates, who's retired, wants Pfeiffer to teach her spoiled kid Cheri (Rupert Friend) about women, but problems arise when the pair fall madly in love.

Stephen Frears---Great Britain---2009---93 mins.

• Miramax
• Release date: 10/20/2009