This lavish retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses stars Annette Benning as the Marquise de Merteuil, a nasty aristocrat who delights in manipulating those around her. She is outraged when her lover makes plans to marry the young and virtuous Cecile,(who is in love with her music teacher), so she engages the services of the notorious playboy the Vicomte de Valmont to cuckold him. Before he can do it, however, Valmont falls in love with a proper, married woman, Madame de Tourvel. Learning of this, Merteuil bets Valmont that he can't bed Tourvel, and he happily takes up the challenge.
The plot was so complex that I needed a scorecard to keep straight who was doing what to whom and why. All the action swirls around Benning's Merteuil ... Read More:
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Both "Valmont" and "Dangerous Liasons" are fabulous films. I personally prefer "Valmont". The casting for this film is fantastic. Colin Firth makes a much more charming and handsome `Valmont' who knows how to use the 'art of seduction' to his advantage. Annette Benning is a scheming and beautiful `de Merteuil'. The mood of this film is more feel-good than 'Dangerous Liasons'; it contains more playful humour and the imagery (especially in the outdoors) is amazing. With `Dangerous Liasons'; the characters (played by Glenn Close and John Malkovich) were more sinister and less likeable (I guess it depends what mood you're in). Overall: Highly recommended.
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I think this film is really entertaining. How can you go wrong with a cast that includes the wonderful Annette Benning, the gorgeous Colin Firth and the mesmirising Fairuza Balk. I actually prefer it to Dangerous Liaisons although it is the same story.
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I think this film is really entertaining. How can you go wrong with a cast that includes the wonderful Annette Benning, the gorgeous Colin Firth and the mesmirising Fairuza Balk. I actually prefer it to Dangerous Liaisons although it is the same story.
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I think this film is really entertaining. How can you go wrong with a cast that includes the wonderful Annette Benning, the gorgeous Colin Firth and the mesmirising Fairuza Balk. I actually prefer it to Dangerous Liaisons although it is the same story.
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