Choderlos de Laclos
Author
Series
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to socially control and exploit others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their manipulative talents. It has been seen as depicting the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime. However, it has...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.
8) Valmont
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The vindictive widow Merteuil bets her friend debaucherous Valmont that he cannot seduce the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel. If Valmont succeeds he may also bed Merteuil, but if he fails he must join a monastery. Set amongst the aristocracy in France in the 18th century.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
The story of "Juliette and Valmont, two charming and vindictive spouses who find sport in each other's extramarital conquests. But while staying at a ski resort, their games of passion come to a tragic end when Valmont falls in love with a pious socialite earmarked to be his next victim"--Container.
An update of the French epistolary novel "Les liaisons dangereuses", set amongst the upper classes in Paris in the late 1950s.
