Merteuil calls on the similarly unprincipled Vicomte de Valmont to do the deed. To soothe her wounded pride and embarrass Bastide, she seeks to arrange the seduction and disgrace of his young virgin fiancée, Cécile de Volanges, who has only recently been presented to society after spending her formative years in the shelter of a convent.
In pre-Revolution Paris, the Marquise de Merteuil plots revenge against her ex-lover, the Comte de Bastide, who recently ended their relationship. It received seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture and won three Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design. Grossing $34.7 million against its $14 million budget, it was a modest box office success. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for Close's and Pfeiffer's performances and the screenplay, production values and costumes. It stars Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Peter Capaldi and Keanu Reeves.ĭangerous Liaisons was theatrically released by Warner Bros.
Should you wish to share this article, we recommend that you: (i) link directly to the article at on your website or (ii) share this article link via social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play Les liaisons dangereuses, itself adapted from the 1782 French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Copying these materials for anything other than your personal use is a violation of copyright laws. You may use the content online and for your non-commercial, personal use only. DO NOT re-post this article on any other websites. No part of this article may be copied, reproduced, rearranged, redistributed, modified by any means or in any form whatsoever without prior written permission. Dangerous Liaisons will be released in cinemas on September 27, 2012. The screenplay is written by famous writer and novelist Yan Geling (严歌苓), who also wrote The Flowers of War . The $200 million RMB production is a co-production between China and Korea, and is directed by Korean director Hur Jin Ho (許秦豪). Socialite Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung) convinces her ex-lover Xie Yifan (Jang Dong Gun) to play a treacherous game: if he wants to have sex with her, he will have to seduce the virtuous Du and spoil her reputation. The film takes place in 1930s Shanghai and centers around the innocent Du Fenyu (Zhang Ziyi), the widower of a famous and respected college professor.
Promoted as the nation’s biggest film of the year, the Chinese drama film, Dangerous Liaisons features Zhang Ziyi (章子怡), Cecilia Cheung (張栢芝), and Korean actor Jang Dong Gun (張東健).īased on the French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons is the fifth motion picture adaptation of the novel, behind Hollywood’s 1998 version, France’s Valmont in 1989, Roger Kumble’s Cruel Intentions in 1999, and South Korea’s Untold Scandal in 2003.
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