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Summary: Not as good as Valmont
Review: Dangerous Liaisons is a good movie but nothing like Valmont, the other film version of the same book. Dangerous Liaisons is emotionless and humourless. When I watch it, I really couldn't care less about the characters. The actors are good in both movies but in Valmont most of them fit their roles better.
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Summary: Ok... it was good.
Review: Brillant costuming, brillant acting, and just plain good. Talk about the dynamics of spite and revenege based on the exploitation of innocence and sexuality... The only disappointment was with the 5.1 soundtrack... it could have been much better. But, in all fairness, music was probably not considered to be showcased in this movie. Although it was ripe for it. An excellently portrayed escapade. Didn't these people ever have health problems from their promiscuity?
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Summary: Very Good Script
Review: This movie has the kind of script that makes you watch it over and over and over. Each time you catch something new. Why can't we make more of these?
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Summary: Wow, you HAVE to see this!
Review: I saw this for the first time about a year ago because I was reading the book for a class, and while the book is certainly interesting, the movie just blew me away. Outstanding acting on the part of all, especially in the dynamic between the male and female roles. Highest recommendations!
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Summary: One of my all-time favorite films!
Review: I've just seen Dangerous Liaisons for the first time, because when it was first released I was just 11 years old. A must see movie, superb acting by Glenn Close, great script, and marvelous setting.
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Summary: Exquisate
Review: An amazingly intricate and brilliant plot-line, acted in an understated yet powerful way by Close and Malkovitch. I never cease to get the chills as the power struggle between these two lovers reaches it's peak.
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Summary: A truly magnificent film.
Review: Sharing the same interest in intriques and manipulation the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) do feel some kind of mutual understanding, kinship and attraction for one another. Now the two of them create a diabolic plot just for the pleasures given by revenge, obtaining redress and to maintain one's self. Yet, this time they set of a series of events that may not only devastate the life of others, but ultimately may destroy their own. Valmont, who is so cynical and vain that he is unable to recognize a true, unselfish emotion even when he experience it, finds himself in a prestigious contest where nobody can stay unharmed. This drama is produced in front of us with a beauty and an ease that in many ways may seem to contradict the cool brutality of their actions, but does in fact only lender it a deeper impact. Finally, Michelle Pfeiffer has never been more radiant. She has the fragility and restrained appearance needed to portrait the unfortunate Mme de Tourvel, but also the necesary ability to reveal her inner strength and passionate soul.
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Summary: A truly amazing film.
Review: The leading actors are all magnificent in this diabolic plot that is created for the pleasures given by revenge and to obtain redress, and most of all is the result of vanity and a desperate longing for absolute power. The drama that is produced in front of us with such beauty and ease shows of an amount of cruelty that is matchless. The two main characters of Glenn Close and John Malkovich sets of a series of events that is not only to devastate the lifes of others, but ultimately to destroy their own. All because of their refusal to see clearly what emotions they are driven by and the nature of their desires. Finally, Michelle Pfeiffer has never been more radiant. With her fragile and restrained appearance that hides remarkable strength and courage to overcome that fragility she was born to play the part of Mme de Tourvel whose passionate heart becomes her ruin.
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Summary: Immorality inside the French aristocracy of XVIII century
Review: Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) appears to be the ultimate libertarian in an aristocratic society that would not even tolerate thinking about sex.Seducing is a game, a way of life, for him and Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close). Their complicity is the background of a diabolic plan involving seduction of young Cecile de Volanges (Uma Thurman). While some people will be stopped by the scandalous and sulfurous aspects of such a film, others will appreciate the magnificent French style of the XVIIIth and the fine play of the actors. Really gorgeous!
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Summary: Acting with Electric Intensity
Review: One of the all time best movies I have seen as far as being able to draw the veiwer into it's world. The acting by John Malkovitch and Glenn Close and their constant duel is breathtaking and intense. The emotions of Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman are profound and stirring. And the skill these actors use, expressing their characters through eyes and voice and stunning facial expression, is some of the finest I have ever seen. The costume design is among the likes of Amadeus and Henry V (Branagh)...it enfolds the viewer in a profound sense of the time and culture the characters live in. It is a sweet feeling of another time and place and the great game that is played there is one of depth, intrigue, passion,and the taboo. Set in the heydey of Parisian Aristocracy, two nobles share an intense passion of loveplay and manipulation. They are the greatest of this game, and their personal desires to beat the other fuel a private battle like no other. Supporting their consuming pranks are an innocent wife of a religious leader, a young debutante fresh out of a convent preparing to marry, and a brash young music teacher intent on forcing his way out of the class system. The way each of these people's own internal passion struggles intertwines with the other is dizzying and so intense it's tragic. The surprises that seem to come from every corner in this film give it a life and depth that instantly creates legend. Top of the line film with great cinemetography, score, editing, and historical accuracy.
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