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Les liaisons dangereuses (1959)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 3/18

3/18: Gee...this is precisely why I hate French cinema.

Les liaisons dangereuses never got me into it. The movie was so boring that I had to break it down into five minute segments to get through the entire thing. This one took me about a month to complete. I'm a big fan of the book, which was written by Choderlos de Laclos, and most especially Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons with John Malkovich.

In fact, I wanted more 18th century French setting and costumes out of the 1959 film version. Shockingly, Les liaisons dangereuses contains none of them with Roger Vadim preferring to keep everything as modern as possible. So much of the plot is changed that it hardly resembles the original story, hence my constant zoning out. Plus, I hate how the cheap the whole thing looks, resembling a bad daytime TV soap opera.

All in all, I would rather watch Dangerous Liaisons again or read the epistolary book one hundred times before seeing a single second of Les liaisons dangereuses.

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