Vicomte Sebastien de Valmont (John Malkovich) knows how to trick the peasants into thinking that he's a good guy, despite his vampiric intentions. Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (Glenn Close) is a seductively evil character who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Stephen Frears directs a top-notch movie adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel about several manipulative Rococo-era French aristocrats.
When Merteuil learns that he has actually fallen in love with her, she refuses to let him claim his reward for seducing Cecile. He has little difficulty seducing Cecile but what he really wants is to seduce Madame de Tourvel. His reward for doing so will be to spend the night with Merteuil. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his success. In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. Driver Intervention Programs Franklin County. Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les.
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