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Produced by Michael Hausman and Paul Rassam
Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière and Milos Forman Based on the novel Les liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Produced by Michael Hausman and Paul Rassam
Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière and Milos Forman Based on the novel Les liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
With:
Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Siân Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, T.P. McKenna, Isla Blair, Ian McNeice, and Vincent Schiavelli
Cinematography:
Miroslav Ondrícek
Editing: Nena Danevic and Alan Heim
Music: Christopher Palmer
Editing: Nena Danevic and Alan Heim
Music: Christopher Palmer
Runtime:
137 min
Release Date: 17 November 1989
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 17 November 1989
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
Charming and fay Colin Firth is woefully miscast as Choderlos de Laclos’s titular schemer/seducer; rest of company is better, but Forman’s oh-too beautiful adaptation lacks the teeth and the balls of Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons from the previous year.