Private Lives

Private Lives

2013 · 113 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past. This Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Privates Lives was filmed live at London's Gielgud Theatre.

Directed by Robert Delamere

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Anna Chancellor Amanda Prynne
Toby Stephens Elyot Chase
Anna-Louise Plowman Sybil Chase
Anthony Calf Victor Prynne
Sue Kelvin Louise

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