Rotten
Colin Firth's Valmont is pleasant, a dreadful thing to say about one of literature's most magnetic seducers.
Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
Overview
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.
Director and cast
- Miloš Forman Director
- Colin Firth as Valmont
- Annette Bening as Merteuil
- Meg Tilly as Madame de Tourvel
- Fairuza Balk as Cecile
- Siân Phillips as Madame de Volanges (as Sian Phillips)
- Jeffrey Jones as Gercourt
- Henry Thomas as Danceny
- Fabia Drake as Madame de Rosemonde
- T. P. McKenna Cast
- Isla Blair Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Valmont is a superb piece of craftsmanship, impeccable in every detail from lighting to costuming, but as a work of art it remains tentative and blurred.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Milos Forman and Jean-Claude Carriere, while fiddling with the plot of this deliciously nasty tale, have studiously embalmed its spirit.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten
The results are too pretty and well acted to be a total washout, but the fascination with evil and power that gives the novel intensity is virtually absent; what remains is mainly petty malice and mild cynicism.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Because there are no characters animating his panorama, all this serves to prove is that though Forman's movie is broader than Frears', it is also shallower.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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