Movie Cosmos - Dangerous Liaisons

Description:

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.

Top Cast >

Glenn Close

As Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil

John Malkovich

As Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Michelle Pfeiffer

As Madame Marie de Tourvel

Uma Thurman

As Cécile de Volanges

Swoosie Kurtz

As Madame de Volanges

Keanu Reeves

As Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny

Mildred Natwick

As Madame de Rosemonde

Peter Capaldi

As Azolan

Joe Sheridan

As Georges

Valerie Gogan

As Julie

Laura Benson

As Emilie

Joanna Pavlis

As Adèle

Nicholas Hawtrey

As Major-domo

Paulo Abel Do Nascimento

As Castrato

François Lalande

As Curé

François Montagut

As Belleroche

Harry Jones

As Armand

Christian Erickson

As Bailiff

Catherine Cauwet

As Opera Singer

Top Crew >

Stephen Frears

Director

Norma Heyman

Producer

Stuart Craig

Art Direction

Gérard James

Art Direction, Set Decoration

George Fenton

Original Music Composer

Christopher Hampton

Screenplay, Theatre Play

Hank Moonjean

Producer

Philippe Rousselot

Director of Photography

James Acheson

Costume Design

Pierre Cottereau

Assistant Camera

Barthelemy Bogaert

Assistant Camera

Annabel Ware

Assistant Editor

André Loisif

Construction Foreman

Françoise Roumanet

Assistant Editor

Peter Maxwell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Jacqueline Perpere

Extras Casting

Simon Cowper

Assistant Editor

Myriam Touzé

Assistant Camera

Choderlos de Laclos

Novel

Mike Fox

Camera Operator

Mick Audsley

Editor

Patrick Gordon

Unit Production Manager

Peter Handford

Production Sound Mixer

Bernard Seitz

First Assistant Director

Pierre Vadé

Hairstylist

Malou Rossignol

Hairstylist

Monique Huylebroeck

Makeup Artist

Gavin Bocquet

Art Direction

Michel Mellier

Cableman

Dominique Plez

Makeup Artist

Gérard Viard

Art Direction

Peter Owen

Wig Designer

Frank Gardiner

Assistant Costume Designer

Isabelle Coignerai

Costume Supervisor

Penny Eyles

Script Supervisor

John Stevenson

Boom Operator

Vincent Lascoumes

Second Assistant Director

Andree Demarez

Costumer

Daniel Braunschweig

Property Master

Gérard Buffard

Grip

Bernard Brégier

Key Grip

Nathalie Doux

Costumer

Jean-Pierre Baronsky

Gaffer

Albert Goldberg

Stunts

Kant Pan

Sound Editor

Paul Bastide

Decorator, Painter

Michel Carliez

Stunts

Danielle Laffargue

Costumer

Jackie Krost

Music Supervisor

Jean-Luc Bezeau

Grip

Jean-Michel Ducourty

Assistant Art Director

Françoise Menidrey

Casting Director

Gérard Rival

Grip

Leo Davis

Casting Director

Michael Connell

Music Editor

Martin Crane

Assistant Sound Editor

Pierre Gralhon

Location Manager

Étienne George

Still Photographer

Catherine Hall

Production Secretary

Christopher Ackland

Dialogue Editor

Alain Domínguez

Transportation Captain

Peter Baldock

Assistant Sound Editor

Denise Breton

Unit Publicist

Rick Dunford

Dialogue Editor

Jean Michel Penkhoss

Assistant Location Manager

Blanche Weisenfeld

Production Coordinator

Sophie Drouin

Production Accountant

Olivier Lhoste

Location Manager

Jean-Luc Russier

Makeup Supervisor

Reviews:

kevin2019 (10/10)

"Dangerous Liaisons" is unquestionably one of the most captivating films to come along in quite some time. It is a visually stunning film and it makes extremely good use of some exceptional locations and interiors and the excruciatingly uncomfortable looking and cumbersome costumes are exquisitely authentic. Of course there are many people out there who will automatically shy away upon learning this is a period film and for good reason. Such films can by their very nature often be obscure and lack any meaning in the modern age. They are slow moving with arcane and unengaging dialogue and the tiresome plot can have no substance or consequence and it can lack momentum. This film has none of these failings and it is an incredibly well paced work of excellence throughout whose ensemble of characters go on the most unanticipated journeys to essentially the same destination: ruination.

2024-02-20