Gene is dumping on this movie but a few months later he praised it and the director when compairing dangerous liasons to Valmont a movie based on the sane source material.
It's a shame that "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Valmont" were released back to back, as the two adaptations are too different tonally to compare them fairly. While "Liaisons" is straight-up melodrama, "Valmont" portrays the characters as frivolously amoral. In my opinion, the latter deserves more credit for depicting the kind of "let them eat cake" attitude typically associated with the pre-revolutionary French aristocracy.
Gene is dumping on this movie but a few months later he praised it and the director when compairing dangerous liasons to Valmont a movie based on the sane source material.
It's a shame that "Dangerous Liaisons" and "Valmont" were released back to back, as the two adaptations are too different tonally to compare them fairly. While "Liaisons" is straight-up melodrama, "Valmont" portrays the characters as frivolously amoral. In my opinion, the latter deserves more credit for depicting the kind of "let them eat cake" attitude typically associated with the pre-revolutionary French aristocracy.
I give "Dangerous Liasons" a thumbs up, but I still prefer the Colin Firth version entitled "Valmont."
But not "Cruel Intentions"? ha ha
It came out in 1988 not 1989.
Valmont a movie based on the same source materal came out in '89
It was only released in Chicago by the time 1989 started
@@mastermonarch For conversational purposes, it's considered a film from 1988.
What’s Teddy KGB doing seducing women of purity? Damn he’s a tricky bastard!