Synopsis
Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
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Cast
- Jang Dong-gunXie Yifan
- Zhang ZiyiDu Fenyu
- Cecilia CheungMo Jieyu
- Shawn DouDai Wenzhou
- Candy WangBeibei
- Lisa LuMadame Du Ruixue
- Xiao Shu-LiGui Zhen
- Wu FangHong, Jieyu's maid
Recommandations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Dangerous Liaisons isn't necessarily a work of art, but it's a guilty pleasure for sure. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Visual sumptuousness trumps the coldly erotic dastardliness of previous incarnations, but where this version feasts is on close-ups, with exchanges between pairs of eyes - the predatory versus the hesitant, the manipulatively comforting opposite the blindly vulnerable - that recall the silent era. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
An interesting twist on a classic plot, Dangerous Liaisons is essentially a deluxe soap opera. But with its beautiful cast and gorgeous production design, it is still a highly enjoyable way to waste two hours. - 70
The New York Times
Schadenfreude carries a delectable tang no matter the language, and as the history of Hollywood shows, stories about pretty people behaving badly remain reliably alluring. - 65
NPR
Relocating Dangerous Liaisons, the 18th-century French erotic intrigue, to 1930s Shanghai is a bold move. And yet it's not especially surprising. In Chinese movies, that city in that decade frequently serves as shorthand for decadence. - 58
The A.V. Club
Hur invests the period setting with an eye-popping opulence that's meant to highlight the elite decadence that came before the fall, but his Dangerous Liaisons isn't particularly sophisticated on a political or historical level. - 50
Slant Magazine
Despite the abundant surface pleasures the vision of its milieu provides, its lack of insight or engagement makes this adaptation feel, ultimately, like a missed opportunity. - 50
Village Voice
The least one should hope for from another adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Dangerous Liaisons is savory, salacious trash, but nothing in Hur Jin-ho's tony new version approaches the dizzying depths of Sarah Michelle Gellar spelling out the conditions of her sex bet with Ryan Phillippe ("You can put it anywhere . . .") in 1999's "Cruel Intentions."
