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- 2012
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- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 50 m
- 2012
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- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 50 m
Summary In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, then abandon a naive young woman.
Directed By: Jin-ho Hur
Written By: Choderlos de Laclos, Geling Yan
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 50 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 50 m
Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
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Summary In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, then abandon a naive young woman.
Directed By: Jin-ho Hur
Written By: Choderlos de Laclos, Geling Yan
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Dangerous Liaisons isn't necessarily a work of art, but it's a guilty pleasure for sure.
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.
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.
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.
With its exotic setting and its beautiful cast, this Dangerous Liaisons is lovely rather than wicked.
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.
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, as the novel suggested, but steamy adaptations simply can't be doled out lukewarm.
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