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What Davis gives is very much a stage performance - with the invention of talkies, the studios raided the theater for actors who could speak, and Bette Davis was among them. If she seems at times a little over the top, it can be attributed to the acting style of those days, which was a carryover from the stage. It is in this film and the earlier 'Of Human Bondage' that the Davis image really solidifies - high energy, strong, smoking, and smokin'. The part of Cecile was better cast in Valmont with Fairiza Balk than in Dangerous Liaisons with Uma Thurman - principally because Balk appears to be and conveys the requisite vulnerability of a real fifteen-year-old.Reviewed by blanche-2 7 / 10 Bette Davis as a jinx in '30s melodramaД«ette Davis plays a down and out actress who believes she curses everyone she becomes involved with in 'Dangerous,' one of Davis' Oscar-winning performances. I like Meg Tilly, but, in this role, she is completely outshone by Michelle Pfeiffer, who also has a better written part, in Dangerous Liaisons.

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Innocence-driven decisions dance harmonically with persuasion and inducement capabilities. People's psychological profiles interaction work out almost as if the movie was a symphony. Its intrigue and sexual tension between all characters is simply out of this world. Valmont is one of those movies we could never forget of. This is absolutely my top one, for so many reasons: storytelling is rich and dense, unforgettable acting, photography is amazing, scenarios are perfectly built, decorated and, at last, its progression is natural. Nevertheless, it's not too late to discover this gem. It's a sad case of being the second film version out when the first was better marketed with a more American cast. The film is beautiful to look at, sumptuously and carefully produced. It's a minor point because the entire cast is wonderful, including Fabia Drake as Madame de Rosemond, Sian Philips, Meg Tilly, and Fairuza Balik. Henry Thomas is the desperately in love music teacher - it's good casting, but he comes off as too modern. Firth's Valmont is far more believable than Malkoitch's egomaniacal portrayal. Annette Bening is more full-dimensional than Close's Martueil - she's beautiful, smart, and she's so sweet and lies so beautifully one has no idea what she's really like. Forman is a fantastic director, and the cast warms up what is basically a cold, calculated story and really makes you care. This film is far superior to the more famous one. And as the story says, once you fall in love, your power is gone. But things become more and more complicated, with Valmont, the eternal playboy, actually falling in love himself. Of course, the best-laid plans and all that - Cecile is in love with her music teacher (Henry Thomas), and Merteuil aids and abets the romance as much as possible. She makes a bet with her Casanova-like friend Valmont (Colin Firth) that he can seduce Cecile so that on her wedding night, she is not a virgin, thus giving Merteuil revenge against Gercourt. Here, Annette Benning is the Merteuil who is stunned to learn that her lover, Gercourt (Jeffrey Jones) is betrothed to the fifteen-year-old virginal Cecile (Fairuza Balk).

'Valmont' is a 1989 film based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos, as well, of course, the better-known film Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich.

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