This movie was released at the same time as Dangerous Liasons, and it was based on the same screenplay as that movie. As such it found itself trailing behind the American version (which is a shame because the American Version is sadly lacking).
Valmont is set in France in 1781 and is focused on a young girl Cecile. The movie is basically about her coming of age and how she comes into the world of intrigue and manipulations. Cecile is discovering herself and her passions, but she is also discovering the world that she is coming into.
What this movie shows us is the excesses of the French nobility. One should consider that this movie is set eight years before the French Revolution, so in a sense the nobility is at its most corrupt, but even then this has been going on for ages.
This movie is about the manipulations of the nobility and how Cecile's mentor is teaching her about the reality of noble life, but also working her own goals as well. She does not want her husband to be be the first to sleep with Cecile, so she works with another of her lovers, the noble Valmont, to do it instead.
This movie is okay but it is not really one in my interests. The intrigue in this movie is not the type that I really appreciate, and in fact the reality behind the nobility in France is far more than what is portrayed here. The peasants were in a much worse situation than the nobles were, and by looking at this movie we can see how bad the nobility is. Cecile is an innocent girl, but she is quickly corrupted by the nobles' excesses. She wants to go with the guy she loves, but is constantly directed in the way of the nobles. In the end she becomes like the rest of them.
Valmont is set in France in 1781 and is focused on a young girl Cecile. The movie is basically about her coming of age and how she comes into the world of intrigue and manipulations. Cecile is discovering herself and her passions, but she is also discovering the world that she is coming into.
What this movie shows us is the excesses of the French nobility. One should consider that this movie is set eight years before the French Revolution, so in a sense the nobility is at its most corrupt, but even then this has been going on for ages.
This movie is about the manipulations of the nobility and how Cecile's mentor is teaching her about the reality of noble life, but also working her own goals as well. She does not want her husband to be be the first to sleep with Cecile, so she works with another of her lovers, the noble Valmont, to do it instead.
This movie is okay but it is not really one in my interests. The intrigue in this movie is not the type that I really appreciate, and in fact the reality behind the nobility in France is far more than what is portrayed here. The peasants were in a much worse situation than the nobles were, and by looking at this movie we can see how bad the nobility is. Cecile is an innocent girl, but she is quickly corrupted by the nobles' excesses. She wants to go with the guy she loves, but is constantly directed in the way of the nobles. In the end she becomes like the rest of them.