Based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Choderlos de Laclos, this lavish period epic set in decadent late 18th-century France tells the tale of Marquise de Merteuil (Annette Bening), a woman so consumed by greed and arrogance that she will stop at nothing to bring down those who do not yield to her ambitions and desires. She conspires with her former lover, Valmont (Colin Firth) to seduce innocent young bride Madame de Tourvel (Meg Tilly), so depriving the girl's suitor of the privilege of marrying a virgin. But when the brazen Valmont finds himself falling in love with his young conquest, both he and the Marquise discover the pain and ruin that true love can wreak. Overshadowed by the Stephe Frears film 'Dangerous Liaisons' (1988), also based on the de Laclos novel, the film was nevertheless a nominee at both the Oscars and the BAFTAs.
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After all the hype, the counter-hype, the teaser trailers and the lack of press screenings and publicity, Gus Van Sant's ...
After all the hype, the counter-hype, the teaser trailers and the lack of press screenings and publicity, Gus Van Sant's reappraisal of Hitchcock's masterpiece is a big disappointment. Vince Vaughn is hopelessly miscast as Norman Bates (now a limp-wristed, giggling young man who isn't the least bit threatening), the mummy's boy who gives Anne Heche's fraudulent secretary a fright in the shower. The addition of a masturbation scene is made even more awful by some very suspect sound effects, but on the whole this is pretty close to the original. The famed shower scene is something of a washout in the new version, spiced up slightly for the '90s with shots of Heche's flesh hither and thither. Not so much Psycho as Mildly Demented.
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