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Article: French flop: the always-stunning Catherine Deneuve can't save this limp and unnecessary retread of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2004
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Dangerous Liaisons * Written by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt * Directed by Josee Dayan * Starring Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski, Danielle Darrieux, and Nastassja Kinski * WE * March 15 and 16, 8 p.m. Eastern/Pacific
A moviemaker better have one hell of a compelling reason to have another whack at Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 novel that has already spawned a 1959 film version with Jeanne Moreau; Christopher Hampton's incomparable play starring Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman; director Stephen Frears's elegantly spidery 1988 film starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich; and Milos Forman's 1989 also-ran Valmont. And how ...