Fresh
A sombre, manipulative affair in which the decor is never allowed to usurp our interest.
Steve Grant, Time Out
Dangerous Liaisons
Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The game as you've never seen it played before.
1988 · 1h 59m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Stephen Frears
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 and cast
- Stephen Frears Director
- Glenn Close as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
- John Malkovich as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame Marie de Tourvel
- Uma Thurman as Cécile de Volanges
- Swoosie Kurtz as Madame de Volanges
- Keanu Reeves as Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny
- Mildred Natwick as Madame de Rosemonde
- Peter Capaldi as Azolan
- Joe Sheridan as Georges
- Valerie Gogan as Julie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The creepy plot still holds a certain fascination.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Witty, entertaining, if occasionally overripe.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Director Stephen Frears accelerates entertainingly through Christopher Hampton's wig-and-powder sado-comedy about sexual mind games in 18th-century France.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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