1988 · drama · romance · history
Dangerous Liaisons
Directed by Stephen Frears1h 59m1988
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Our read: Dangerous Liaisons (1988) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · history entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
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