#Review Dangerous Lians Broadway Full Of Tension

As happens with surprising regularity in the movie industry, at the time when Dangerous Liaisons entered production, it was not the only adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' 18th century French novel on the drawing board. The rival film, Valmont, was being readied by director Milos Forman who.

In modern times, you might hover over its image for a few fleeting seconds, but Set in Shanghai in the 1930s, a few years before the second Sino-Japanese War, this Chinese film is an adaptation of the French novel Dangerous Liaisons, a dramatic love story mingling passion, lust and betrayal.Click to discover Les Liaisons Dangereuses NYC reviews on Show-Score. Thought that the most provocative battle of the sexes on Broadway this year would.Asia House Pan-Asia Film Festival review: Dangerous Liaisons. Set in Shanghai in the 1930s, a few years before the second Sino-Japanese War, this Chinese film is an adaptation of the French novel Dangerous Liaisons, a dramatic love story mingling passion, lust and betrayal.Home Locations Baltimore Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’. Moved to Broadway in 1987, was made into a movie in 1988 and went on to yet another run on Broadway.The film cleverly plays with the audience’s allegiance, casting the protagonist as a ruthless womaniser, yet simultaneously revealing his compassionate character.The plot follows the crude wager between playboy Xie Yifan and Mo Jieyu, the chairwoman of a bank.

Review Dangerous Lians Broadway Full Of Tension

Mike Sutton has reviewed the Region 2 DVD release of Dangerous LiaisonsWhile most period-pieces these days are turgid waxwork displays with fanatical attention to costume detail and none at all to matters such as dramatic tension and pace, Dangerous Liaisons is that rare beast a costume drama which is full of tension and excitement and unsentimentally ruthless in its depiction of human beings tearing each other apart. Meanwhile Jieyu devises her own master plan of seeking revenge on her ex-husband.The film is infused with sex and deception which keeps the viewer engaged and the main characters display selfishness, naivety and madness in a believable manner.One of the most interesting aspects of the film is the way that chastity, filial piety and the importance of the social class system in China are touched upon.However, the lavish lifestyle the characters follow and the dramatic love triangle they are in make the film seem, at times, like a pathetic tragedy that the rich in China faced, without portraying the events and concerns unravelling in the Republic of China at that time.Title of film: Dangerous Liaisons ( Wi-heom-han gyan-gye is the original title)Directed by: South Korean director Jin-ho HurStarring: Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi ( House of Flying Daggers and Memoirs of a Geisha) and South Korean actor Dong-Gun JangLanguage in: Mandarin Chinese with English subtitlesKey selling point of film: The film has fantastic actingUnnecessary English in some scenes makes them rather awkward and forced.Those familiar with the way in which dramatic romances often unfold can probably predict most of the film.The UK premiere of this film was during the ASia House Pan-Asia Film Festival in London and the film was also screened at Leeds Hyde Park Picture House on 4 March.For more information about the Asia House Pan-Asia Film Festival click here.Omar Khan is currently doing an internship at Asia House. In her Broadway debut, S&248 rensen beautifully captures love’s unruly nature and provides a pure-souled counterpart to the deceptions at hand.

The Marquise demands that Valmont seduce and deflower Cecile De Volanges (Thurman), in order to ruin her before she marries. With nothing better to do than ruin people’s lives, they decide to embark on an elaborate game to spice up their mutual attraction. These two epitomise the decline of the Ancien Regime, literally fiddling while Rome burns, or at least while Paris smoulders.

This is the main defect of the script in fact. Michelle Pfeiffer is very good, as usual, as the tragic (if more than a little irritating) Madame De Tourvel but she hasn’t got much of a character to play. However, Malkovich has a nice way with his dialogue for all the self-consciousness of his performance, and Uma Thurman is nicely precocious as the object of his attentions. Still, we have Close in this film and Huston in The Grifters to remind us that two of the greatest stars on screen at the end of the twentieth century were women.With Close dominating all before her, the rest of the cast are a bit irrelevant. As it is, they get secondary roles in undeserving films.

The design of the film is naturally beyond criticism, especially the costumes of James Acheson and the design of Stuart Craig the real trick here is the way the settings and costumes are used to comment upon the characters. However, he generally keeps things moving and the staging of the verbal duels between the Marquise and Valmont is superb, up there with the work of James Foley in the equally impressive adaptation of a stage play Glengarry Glen Ross. Whenever Close isn’t on screen, the pace drops a little and the cinematography becomes too obviously soft focus and chocolate-box pretty. Stephen Frears has a similar problem. He writes brilliant dialogue, especially for the Marquise, but the forces of virtue have a hard time coming through.

Otherwise there is nothing, not even a trailer. Some production notes are on the disc and these are well written but brief and the biographies are equally insubstantial. The music sounds superb throughout.There are no extras of any note. Not too many surround effects but the general atmosphere is well evoked in the louder scenes and the use of directional speech is very striking. The colours are generally acceptable but this is not a good picture and does not do justice to the careful cinematography.The soundtrack is in Dolby Digital 5.1 and is generally pleasing. Some slight grain in places.

The DVD is sadly inadequate, despite the merits of the soundtrack, but if you can get it very cheap (I paid a fiver for my copy) it’s worth the money for the time being. What appears at first to be an elegant bitch-fest comedy turns into something genuinely affecting and Glenn Close is simply extraordinary.

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