Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

SixtusXLIV This is one of the movies (not many) where the remake "Dangerous Liaisons" of Stephen Frears wins by a large margin.First of all those movie had one Great Actress in Jeanne Moreau. Bur ir as an incompetent Director in Roger VAdim and some miscasts like Gérard Philippe as Valmont. Perhaps the main culprit is "Roger Vailland". I'm am very fond of "Vailland",love is novels (namely "Drôle de Jeu", but I've read them when I was too young. Nowadays I believe that is is the wrong kind of scriptwriter. Also Roger Vadim did not care for literature. Ask Brigite Bardot. This is a semi-failure. See it only id you are a fan of Jeanne Moreau. There is more eroticism in "Journal d'une Femme de Chambre" by Luis Buñuel than here, about "boudain". "morcilla" or just plain English "sausage". The Anglo-Saxons cannot make sausages and the current laws forbid to to it properly..

jotix100 "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", a novel by Chordelos DeLaclos, had a great impact in the French culture. It's a work of such impact that it has served to inspire different screen treatments throughout the years. Roger Vadim updated the book to the France of the 1950s. Together with Claude Blule and Roger Vailand, they adapted Laclos' story among the upper classes.Juliette Merteuil, who is married to the Vicomte Valmont, are swingers in Paris. Juliette and Valmont love to play around and they move in the right circles where it appears that everything goes, or is, at least, tolerated. They are the ultimate sophisticates who have class the right connections. Juliette wants to teach a lesson to someone that had crossed her in the past, and sets to weave a web of intrigue in order to get her revenge and her kicks, in doing so.Needless to say, everything backfires on Mme. Merteuil and the Vicomte, as they get entangled in the web that has been spun. Valmont wanted to turn the youthful Cecile into a sex object, even though she is a virtuous girl who is going to get married with Danceny, the man who offended Mme. Merteuil. At the same time, Valmont can't help falling in love with Marianne, a beautiful young woman. It is ironic what happens to Valmont and to Mme. Merteuil, who instead of smallpox gets her face damaged by fire.The film is interesting to watch as a comparison with the other versions that appear to be much better made than the Vadim version. The best thing going for the film is Gerard Philipe, who plays Valmont. Mr. Philipe made a good impression as the Vicomte. Jeanne Moreau, who is seen as Juliette Merteuil, looked beautiful in the role of the evil woman with designs on others. Jeanne Valerie appears as Cecile and Annette Vadim portrays Marianne. The young Jean-Louis Trintignant is seen as Danceny.What distinguishes the film is the jazzy musical score by Thelonious Monk. The music blends well with the night club settings in the film and it can stand alone for listening. Marcel Grignon's dark photography didn't transfer to the DVD format well. This has to be one of the darkest photographed films in memory. Even the snow scenes look dark! Roger Vadim's attempt was courageous for transferring the novel to that high society world of the Parisian society.

Maurizio Von Trapp Les Liasions Dangeureses is one of the best books ever written - very rococo, very stylish, and very evil but a kind of evil that you have to love. It is surprising even for me to say that the American version of this film beats this horrible French version. The film starts with the director obnoxiously explaining the plot and the characters are continuously explaining themselves. This story is all about secrecy, style and good manners. The film replaces all the good stuff with characters that say out loud all the facts the viewer should be obliged to ponder on. I saw this film with two other fans of Viscont de Valmont and Marqueis de Merteuil (I don't know if that's how you write it) and by the time the film had hit the first half an hour our faces were all alike - disillusioned and disgusted.

dbdumonteil 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.