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Valmont

  • 19891989
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  • 2h 17m
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7.0/10
14K
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Fairuza Balk, Colin Firth, Meg Tilly, and Annette Bening in Valmont (1989)
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France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as p... Read allFrance before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.
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  • Director
    • Milos Forman
  • Writers
    • Choderlos de Laclos(novel "Les liaisons dangereuses")
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
    • Milos Forman
  • Stars
    • Colin Firth
    • Annette Bening
    • Meg Tilly
  • Director
    • Milos Forman
  • Writers
    • Choderlos de Laclos(novel "Les liaisons dangereuses")
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
    • Milos Forman
  • Stars
    • Colin Firth
    • Annette Bening
    • Meg Tilly
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 73User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
    • 55Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Valmont
    Trailer 2:07
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    Valmont: Is This Your First Opera? (French Subtitled)
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    Valmont: Love Letter (French Subtitled)
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    Valmont: Who Is She? (French Subtitled)
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    Valmont: I Won (French Subtitled)
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    Photos74

    Colin Firth and Annette Bening in Valmont (1989)
    Fairuza Balk and Annette Bening in Valmont (1989)
    Meg Tilly and Annette Bening in Valmont (1989)
    Colin Firth and Annette Bening in Valmont (1989)
    Colin Firth and Meg Tilly in Valmont (1989)
    Meg Tilly in Valmont (1989)
    Colin Firth and Henry Thomas in Valmont (1989)
    Meg Tilly, Annette Bening, and Ian McNeice in Valmont (1989)
    Meg Tilly in Valmont (1989)
    Meg Tilly in Valmont (1989)
    Meg Tilly in Valmont (1989)
    Colin Firth and Annette Bening in Valmont (1989)

    Top cast

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    Colin Firth
    Colin Firth
    • Valmont
    Annette Bening
    Annette Bening
    • Merteuil
    Meg Tilly
    Meg Tilly
    • Madame de Tourvel
    Fairuza Balk
    Fairuza Balk
    • Cecile
    Siân Phillips
    Siân Phillips
    • Madame de Volanges
    • (as Sian Phillips)
    Jeffrey Jones
    Jeffrey Jones
    • Gercourt
    Henry Thomas
    Henry Thomas
    • Danceny
    Fabia Drake
    Fabia Drake
    • Madame de Rosemonde
    T.P. McKenna
    T.P. McKenna
    • Baron
    Isla Blair
    Isla Blair
    • Baroness
    Ian McNeice
    Ian McNeice
    • Azolan
    Aleta Mitchell
    • Victoire
    Ronald Lacey
    Ronald Lacey
    • José
    Vincent Schiavelli
    Vincent Schiavelli
    • Jean
    Sandrine Dumas
    Sandrine Dumas
    • Martine
    Sébastien Floche
    • Priest
    • (as Sebastien Floche)
    Antony Carrick
    Antony Carrick
    • President de Tourvel
    Murray Gronwall
    • Flea Market Salesman
    • Director
      • Milos Forman
    • Writers
      • Choderlos de Laclos(novel "Les liaisons dangereuses")
      • Jean-Claude Carrière
      • Milos Forman
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Meg Tilly and Colin Firth fell in love while they were making the film. A year later they had a son together.
    • Goofs
      When Tourvel is in the market she places several food items in her basket one after the other. However, every time she does so the basket appears empty even though she had just placed something in it a moment before.
    • Quotes

      Valmont: You are confusing bets and marriages, madame. One must always honor a bet.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Harlem Nights/The Little Mermaid/Steel Magnolias/Valmont (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Divertimento for Winds in B Flat Major, K240
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performed by the orchestra of the The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

    User reviews73

    Review
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    Featured review
    7/10
    no better or worse than Dangerous Liaisons
    Milos Forman's Valmont is ultimately no better and no worse an adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuse than Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears which made it into theaters months earlier. Both are entertaining, yet both dip into tedium around the three-quarter point because the web of aristocratic intrigues they are following gets too tangled for a two-hour screen treatment.

    "Valmont" occupies a wider canvas which encompasses visual reminders that the privileged central characters live amidst a largely impoverished society. As soon as horse-drawn carriage gallops away from palace or mansion, the squalid reality of the streets of Paris is revealed. Frears's "DL" is able to show the same difference by closing in on relationships such as the intimate master-servant morning rituals that open his film. Forman's "Valmont" humanizes the main characters by toning down their cruelty and blunting their extremes. By contrast, in "DL" Glenn Close plays the Comtesse de Merteuil with a cold reserve that dissolves into hysteria whereas Annette Bening in "V" exudes a high-wattage, tightly controlled gaiety which remains more or less constant throughout. Colin Firth's Valmont is more dashing and virile than John Malkovich's, but his performance lacks the corrupt menace which Malkovich provides in overly strong doses. Firth's seduction of the young Cecile (Fairuza Balk), is brilliantly conceived, staged and performed. Meg Tilly as Mme. De Tourvel has a simplicity and vulnerability that eluded Michelle Pfeiffer in DL, and Tilly doesn't strain for effects. She and Firth are also a better physical match, and the development of their relationship makes more sense here. Henry Thomas as the music tutor in love with young Cecile has much more screen time than Keanu Reeves in DL, which is all for the better because he has the acting chops to pull it off – a 17-year-old with more principles and purity than all of the adults in his orbit combined. Whereas "Valmont" is a diffuse and leisurely satire, DL is a highly stylized tragedy.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 17, 1989 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 危險關係之瓦爾蒙
    • Filming locations
      • Château de la Motte-Tilly, Nogent-sur-Seine, Aube, France(Madame de Rosemonde's estate)
    • Production companies
      • Renn Productions
      • Timothy Burrill Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $33,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,132,112
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $96,008
      • Nov 19, 1989
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,132,112
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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