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Charlotte Gray Movie Rating: 
Romantic Treat | |
| In 1942, Scottish nurse Charlotte (Cate Blanchett) can speak fluent French, so she goes undercover as a courier in France to search for her lover (Rupert Penry-Jones), an RAF pilot who has been shot down. Charlotte bungles her first assignment, so French Resistance fighter Julien (Billy Crudup) installs her as a housekeeper for his grumpy father (Michael Gambon) and two Jewish boys he is hiding from the Nazis. |
 Cate Blanchett as Charlotte Gray |
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For a movie about national identity and the ability to speak a foreign tongue,
it is strange that everyone speaks perfect English and that the strong leading
character of Sebastian Faulks' novel has been turned into such a hysterical ninny.
Still, Blanchett gives another terrific performance, so this handsome period film
is probably best enjoyed as a swooning wartime romance.
Gay Interest: Blanchett appeared in the homoerotic thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley and the film version of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. With lovely Blanchett, hunky Penry-Jones, and dreamy Crudup, this movie is practically a battle of chiseled cheekbones. | |
Dreamy
