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Les liaisons dangereuses (1959)
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18 December 1961 (USA) morePlot:
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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La Marquise de Merteuil... moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Jeanne Moreau | ... | Juliette de Merteuil | |
| Gérard Philipe | ... | Vicomte de Valmont | |
| Annette Vadim | ... | Marianne Tourvel | |
| Madeleine Lambert | ... | Mme Rosemonde | |
| Jeanne Valérie | ... | Cécile Volanges | |
| Nicolas Vogel | ... | Jerry Court | |
| Boris Vian | ... | Prévan | |
| Gillian Hills | ... | Une amie de Cécile | |
| Paquita Thomas | ... | Nicole | |
| Jean-Louis Trintignant | ... | Danceny | |
| Simone Renant | ... | Mme Volanges |
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Dangerous Liaisons 1960Dangerous Love Affairs (USA) (promotional title)
Les liaisons dangereuses (UK)
Les liaisons dangereuses 1960
Relazioni pericolose (Italy)
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Germany:95 min | USA:106 min | Argentina:105 minLanguage:
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Among all Vadim's duds,"les liaisons dangereuses " seems to have stood the test of time better than the other "works" of the director.The reason is to be found in the cast.Gérard Philipe -though largely overshadowed by John Malkovich in Frears's version -and mainly Jeanne Moreau are earnest thespians and you cannot be wrong with them.And Roger Vailland and Claude Brulé had a good idea for the conclusion:fire instead of smallpox allows us to hear Laclos's immortal line "She's wearing her soul on her face!"
Objections to this early version -to be followed by half a dozen of them- remain:that the story should have been transferred to the sixties is eminently questionable:La Merteuil was a definitely modern original character in Choderlos de Laclos's times ;in 1960,such a woman's behavior had become banal.Vadim would do worse when he would transfer Zola's "la curée" to his era.
Proof positive that all that glittered in the nouvelle vague was not gold.