Dangerous Liaisons

Watch: Dangerous Liaisons

12/21/19881h 59m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The game as you've never seen it played before. ~

Overview:

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Director:

Stephen Frears

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$14,000,000.00

Revenue:

$34,670,720.00

Key words:

plan
lovesickness
paris, france
based on novel or book
cheating
cynic
sexuality
boredom
praise
lover
ladykiller
fiancé
seduction
love letter
courtly life
loss of virginity
wager
gender roles
18th century
sword duel
baroque
seducer

Cast

Glenn Close

~ as ~

Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil

John Malkovich

~ as ~

Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Michelle Pfeiffer

~ as ~

Madame Marie de Tourvel

Swoosie Kurtz

~ as ~

Madame de Volanges

Keanu Reeves

~ as ~

Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny

Mildred Natwick

~ as ~

Madame de Rosemonde

Uma Thurman

~ as ~

Cécile de Volanges

Peter Capaldi

~ as ~

Azolan

Joe Sheridan

~ as ~

Georges

Valerie Gogan

~ as ~

Julie

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Reviews (1)

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kevin2019
Written 1 year(s) ago
10
"Dangerous Liaisons" is unquestionably one of the most captivating films to come along in quite some time. It is a visually stunning film and it makes extremely good use of some exceptional locations and interiors and the excruciatingly uncomfortable looking and cumbersome costumes are exquisitely authentic. Of course there are many people out there who will automatically shy away upon learning this is a period film and for good reason. Such films can by their very nature often be obscure and lack any meaning in the modern age. They are slow moving with arcane and unengaging dialogue and the tiresome plot can have no substance or consequence and it can lack momentum. This film has none of these failings and it is an incredibly well paced work of excellence throughout whose ensemble of characters go on the most unanticipated journeys to essentially the same destination: ruination.