Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christian Erickson, Joe Sheridan, François Montagut, Glenn Close, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Capaldi, Harry Jones, Mildred Natwick, François Lalande, Valerie Gogan, Laura Benson, Joanna Pavlis, Nicholas Hawtrey, Paulo Abel Do Nascimento, Catherine Cauwet
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Reviews
100
A delectably naughty experience. This sort of wit and immediacy is extraordinarily rare in a period film.
100
Entertainment Weekly
Pfeiffer reveals an emotional nakedness that's almost shocking. Never has she exposed so much and done it so simply. Who knew she could be this good?
90
The New York Times
Nothing Miss Close has done on the screen before approaches the richness and comic delicacy of her work as the Marquise. [21 Dec 1988, p.C22]
80
Time
An excellent film. [16 Jan 1989, p.64]
80
Los Angeles Times
In addition to its photography, the film's details of costuming (by "The Last Emperor's" James Acheson) and production design (by Stuart Craig of "Gandhi" and "The Mission") are ravishing. [21 Dec 1988, Calendar p.6]
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