Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil’s ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her wedding day. Meanwhile Valmont has a conquest of his own in mind, Madame de Tourvel, a beautiful, married, and God fearing woman. The Marquise doesn’t think that Valmont can do it, she tells him that if he can provide written proof of a sexual encounter with Madame de Tourvel, that she will offer him a reward, one last night with her. But Valmont will find himself falling in love with Mrs. de Tourvel, embrasing the deadly jealousy of the marquise de Merteuil. —IMDb
Frears was born in Leicester, England to an Anglican father and a Jewish mother. Attended the Trinity College in Cambridge before starting his carreer in television where he contributed to several high-profile series such as the BBC’s Play for Today. In the mid-1980s he came to prominence as an important director of British and later American films. It was his production of the one-off drama My Beautiful Laundrette for Channel 4 in 1985 that led to his notice as a capable film director when the production was released theatrically to great acclaim. He next directed another successful British film, the Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears in 1987, followed by a second film from a Hanif Kureshi screen play, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. The following year he made his Hollywood debut with Dangerous Liaisons. Frears had another critical success with The Grifters, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director but suffered a major box office disappointment with Hero, starring… read more
a miscast kills the premise, 6/10, my review: http://lasttimeisawdotcom.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/last-film-i-saw-dangerous-liaisons/
perfect cast but above all , perfect staging ever. Despite the slapdash end (what happened to Cecile and his stupid naive boyfriend ?) , a really interesting adaptation.
Premier film que je vois de Stephen Frears et je commence certainement avec le plus emblématique de sa filmographie, Les liaisons dangereuses. Emblématique pour deux raisons parce qu’il est d’abord… read review
Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Year: 1988
Country: USA, UK
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Stephen Frears
Writers:
Christopher Hampton
Choderlos de Laclos… read review
