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Stephen Frears
Director -
Christopher Hampton
Screenplay -
Stuart Craig
Art Direction -
Philippe Rousselot
Director of Photography -
Albert Goldberg
Stunts -
Kant Pan
Sound Editor -
James Acheson
Costume Design -
Choderlos de Laclos
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kevin2019
2/20/2024 11:52:32AM
"Dangerous Liaisons" is unquestionably one of the most captivating films to come along in quite some time. It is a visually stunning film and it makes extremely good use of some exceptional locations and interiors and the excruciatingly uncomfortable looking and cumbersome costumes are exquisitely authentic. Of course there are many people out there who will automatically shy away upon learning this is a period film and for good reason. Such films can by their very nature often be obscure and lack any meaning in the modern age. They are slow moving with arcane and unengaging dialogue and the tiresome plot can have no substance or consequence and it can lack momentum. This film has none of these failings and it is an incredibly well paced work of excellence throughout whose ensemble of characters go on the most unanticipated journeys to essentially the same destination: ruination.
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