Valmont

The movie is good costume drama with very fine acting and settings but the ending is different than in the novel.For this reason I prefer the other adaptation which can catch the dark spirit of the novel better.... Full review

A fairly good adaptation of the classic French novel. The cast made the characters very believable. The movie was shot in excellent locations with superb costumes. Worth watching more than once.... Full review

Now this is a movie worth seeing. Colin Firth shines with a flirtatous charm not seen in his more recent films, not to mention the fact that he's wonderfully handsome. And Bening is wickedly manipulative and playfully cruel as she manipulates... Full review

This version of Dangerous Liaisons was so bad it was painful to watch. Annette Bening had one expression on her face during the entire movie - a sickening smirky smile. The casting was all wrong. Who could believe that stupid girl... Full review

This is a master piece, I do love this movie. I had seen the other movie too, and both are completely different. I do like this better, because the characters in this movie displayed a little more sensitivity than the Dangerous... Full review

"Valmont" is indeed the most lavish and youthful version of Ninon Laclos' book. It is also the most underrated and trashed of them all. I love the movie, its scenery, the music, the settings, the costumes. Everything. It's very much to... Full review

I think I've seen all the variations on a theme of this story, which, in turn, is a variation on the Don Juan legend. Of all of them, I like this one best. Colin Firth is a marvelous Valmont. Firth is... Full review

I notice a bit of a war going on between partisans of this and "Dangerous Liaisons" (the Glenn Close/John Malkovich/Stephen Frears vehicle). I'm not entirely sure why, but I find "Valmont" so much better. I think it's because: A) Milos Forman... Full review

Valmont is a very entertaining romance set in the upper classes of 17th century France. Valmont, the title character, is a rogue and womanizer. He is very likable, but has a terrible flaw; he can't love, and that is his ultimate... Full review

This movie grabbed my attention while channel surfing on cable. I would have never picked it out of the guide, but I guess I "tuned in" at the right moment, because before I knew it I had watched the film to... Full review

The film is rapturously beautiful, enticing us into a lush, aristocratic world. Merteuil can't trust the feckless Valmont to return her love, so she withholds it. Despite his cruelties, Firth's Valmont is a childlike, even childish, romantic. ... Full Review

Forman's "Valmont" (opening Friday in Chicago at the 900 N. Michigan) is a much different film from Frears' "Dangerous Liaisons," which was nominated as one of last year's best pictures.....***½ By Roger Ebert Nov 12, 1989 It was a director's nightmare.....her episode with Valmont was more pleasant than tragic.....a cynical story in which evil and compromise emerge victorious over purity and idealism.....In writing their original screenplay, Forman and Carriere almost studiously distanced themselves from th ... Full Review

Forman's " Valmont " (opening Friday in Chicago at the 900 N. Michigan) is a much different film from Frears' " Dangerous Liaisons ," which was nominated as one of last year's best pictures.....It was a director's nightmare.....her episode with Valmont was more pleasant than tragic.....a cynical story in which evil and compromise emerge victorious over purity and idealism.....In writing their original screenplay, Forman and Carriere almost studiously distanced themselves from the modern London and New York ... Full Review

The film has no edge, no spunk - Stephen Frears' version years earlier (with the unholy alliance of Glenn Close and John Malkovich), despite dealing with older actors and jiggling the plot slightly, was so much more cutting and sleazy. Overlong costume drama (heavy on the fabric, light on everything else) based on that oft-filmed French novel Dangerous Liaisons about the sexual mores of the 1800s French society, how they were broken, and what the consequences were for "unacceptable" behavior. ... Full Review

I probably first saw her in "Valmont" when she was fifteen, then again the next year in "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Whatever my first sightings were, she made the kind of impression that causes a movie fan to follow... ... Full Article

Loosely adapted from Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Coderlos de Laclos, director Milos Forman's cinema injects humor and mischief into this 18th-century costume drama's exploration of the diabolical. ... Full Article

The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos ' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman 's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears ' more famous version of the de Laclos original, Dangerous Liaisons . ... Full Article