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Valmont
The film follows the fortunes of a pair of debauched aristocrats who manipulate and toy with each other on a grand scale, drawing others into their elaborate and dangerous erotic games.
20 January 1904, Herne Bay, Kent, England, UK
29 September 1944, Bangalore, India
November 15, 1970 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
14 May 1933, Bettws, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
1937, Reims, France
11 April 1933, Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia
9 September 1971, San Antonio, Texas, USA
2 October 1950, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
29 May 1958, Topeka, Kansas, USA
1 September 1965, Paris, France
24 November 1961, Rouen, France
7 September 1929, Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
28 September 1935, Harrow, London, England, UK
February 09, 2015
Directed by Milos Forman, this film is livelier, more absorbing, and generally better acted than Dangerous Liaisons, which arrived a year ago. But it runs out of inspiration long before it runs out of plot twists.February 09, 2015
The effect is like an ermine violin: It is beautiful to look at, but it doesn't play.February 09, 2015
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.February 09, 2015
Valmont plays like a period sex romp, its concerns reduced to the level of who sleeps with whom and who gets dumped.February 09, 2015
An unqualified dud.February 09, 2015
The anachronistic brio which distinguishes Forman's style is in pleasurable evidence, the approach to the subject is very much his own, and it's worth seeing if you forget all about the original.February 09, 2015
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.February 09, 2015
Insufficiently racy in tone as well as pacing, this accomplished but bland costume drama is Dangerous Liaisons' poor cousin.May 20, 2008
What keeps the film interesting, if not riveting, is the generally on target casting and resulting topnotch interpretations.February 09, 2015
Milos Forman and Jean-Claude Carriere, while fiddling with the plot of this deliciously nasty tale, have studiously embalmed its spirit.February 09, 2015
Colin Firth's Valmont is pleasant, a dreadful thing to say about one of literature's most magnetic seducers.February 09, 2015
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.