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Valmont is a 1989 romantic drama film directed by Miloš Forman and starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, and Meg Tilly. Based on the 1782 French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos , and adapted for the screen by Jean-Claude Carrière , the film is about a scheming widow (Merteuil) who bets her ex-lover (Valmont) that he ...
Dec 2, 2010 · Synopsis. Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman.
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Valmont: Directed by Milos Forman. With Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk. France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity.
About the movie. The Marquise de Merteuil asks her former lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce her fifteen-year-old cousin Cecile. At first, Valmont refuses because he is attracted to the beauty of the married and devout Madame de Tourvel, who is staying at his elderly aunt’s country estate.
Valmont. 140 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1989. Roger Ebert. November 12, 1989. 11 min read. Annette Bening and Colin Firth. It was a director’s nightmare. Two film versions of the same story were being made at the same time. Both came from Les Liaisons Dangereuses, an 18th century novel of sexual intrigue.
Valmont. 1988 · 2 hr 14 min. R. Romance · Drama. Valmont takes on a devious Countess' bet that he can get the wife of an older gentleman to have sex with him but inadvertently falls in love. Subtitles: English.
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The cynical story follows the fortunes of two scheming lovers, a pair of jaded aristocrats who manipulate and toy with each other on a grand scale, drawing others into their elaborate and...
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