Charlotte Gray

CHARLOTTE GRAY is directed by Gillian Armstrong (MRS. SOFFEL, OSCAR AND LUCINDA) with her signature recipe for success: a love story set in beautiful nature played by an all-star cast. Here, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a Scottish woman in mid-WWII, living with an adventuresome pair of young female roommates. While attending a snooty book publishing party, Charlotte escapes from her girlfriends long enough to meet a British pilot, Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), with whom she falls in love. After a brief but passionate affair, Peter is sent on a mission to Nazi-occupied France where his plane is shot down and he is reported M.I.A. Torn apart by love, Charlotte enlists herself as an underground operative in the resistance and accepts a mission to rural France. Charlotte, now working under the code name Dominique, parachutes out of an airplane, and captures two young Jewish boys in her net. The man who untagles the bunch, Julien (Billy Crudup), becomes her one trusted contact, and arranges a job for her as governess to the two boys, hiding out in the chateau owned by his curmudgeonly father (Michael Gambon). Presenting a beautiful love story complicated by WWII tension, Armstrong creates a photographically impeccable film with a strong orchestral score and a capable, utterly attractive cast. CHARLOTTE GRAY is based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

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"...Ms. Blanchett's mercurial face is so fascinating that in the film's many close-ups her features almost seem to melt across the screen....She is a natural chameleon..." -- Stephen Holden , (New York Times)

"...Beyond the fine acting, CHARLOTTE GRAY has an authority and visceral reality that transports the viewer..." -- Claudia Puig , (USA Today)

"...In CHARLOTTE GRAY, Armstrong's skills -- a sharp eye, a deft sense of drama and a a canny knack with performers -- are again on display....Blanchett, as always, is a powerfully magnetic presence..." -- Wade Major , (Box Office)

"...Individual sequences are impressively handled..." -- Geoffrey Macnab , (Sight and Sound)

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