Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 2
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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
No consensus yet.
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Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liasons Dangeureuses was the basis for this Academy Award-winning Stephen Frears film. The plot is motivated by a cruel wager between the beautiful but debauched Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and her misogynistic former lover, the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovitch). The Marquise challenges Valmont to seduce the virginal Cecile de Volanges (Uma Thurman) before the
Jan 1, 1988 Wide
May 1, 2001
Warner Home Video
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Cast
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Glenn Close
Marquise De Merteuil -
John Malkovich
Vicomte De Valmont -
Michelle Pfeiffer
Madame De Tourvel -
Swoosie Kurtz
Madame De Volanges -
Keanu Reeves
Chevalier Danceny -
Uma Thurman
Cecile De Volanges -
Mildred Natwick
Madame De Rosemonde -
Laura Benson
Emilie -
Peter Capaldi
Azolan -
Nicholas Hawtrey
Major Domo -
Francois Lalande
Cure -
François Montagut
Belleroche -
Joe Sheridan
Georges -
Harry Jones
Armand
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (2) | DVD (5)
This incisive study of sex as an arena for manipulative power games takes too long to catch fire and suffers from a deficient central performance.
The creepy plot still holds a certain fascination.
A sombre, manipulative affair in which the dà (C)cor is never allowed to usurp our interest.
Top CriticWitty, entertaining, if occasionally overripe.
Director Stephen Frears accelerates entertainingly through Christopher Hampton's wig-and-powder sado-comedy about sexual mind games in 18th-century France.
Tantalizingly wicked -- watching it makes the color rise to your cheeks.
Emotional cruelty through sexual manipulation is the rule of the game of this smooth transfer of Christopher Hampton's witty play, with an all-American cast, headed by Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Splendid... full of deliciously devious characters
For a tragedy that carries a strong emotional kick, it's wickedly fun.
Close, Malkovich e Pfeiffer aproveitam ao máximo seus fascinantes personagens e os diálogos afiados do roteiro de Hampton, mas o filme é um pouco mais frio do que deveria.
Wicked and well-appointed, this is a deliriously sinful costume a drama.
Its vernacular style allows the film to connect easily with present-day morals, sexual politics, and thirst for power.
Stephen Frears' direction is superb -- the design and lighting evoke simultaneous worlds of privilege and squalor, and while the nature of day-to-day life in 18th century France becomes readily apparent, it never becomes distracting.
Perhaps the juciest adaptation of the story that one could hope for.
Audience Reviews for Dangerous Liaisons
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- Vicomte De Valmont: But it is always the best swimmers who drown.
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- Vicomte De Valmont: You are a genuinely wicked woman.
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- Marquise De Merteuil: When it comes to marriage, one man is as good as the next.
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- Marquise De Merteuil: War.
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Foreign Titles
- Gefährliche Liebschaften (DE)
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (UK)
