Director:		Roger Vadim
Year:		1959
Language:		English
Time:		106 minutes

Roger Vadim takes his patented obsessions with beauty and the tawdry, destructive behavior that inevitably accompanies it to the French literary classic Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos's scathing 18th-century epistolary novel. Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe play Valmont and Juliette, two equally beautiful and equally cruel married hipsters scouring the smoky and chic underworld of beatnik-tinged 1960 Paris for their next amorous victims. A highly charged jazz soundtrack (by Thelonious Monk) underscores the decadence as Valmont and Juliette compare and contrast their cruel infidelities, each trying to outdo the other. When Valmont's latest obsession, Marianne (played by Vadim's wife, Annette), begins to capture his heart, the game is up and Juliette seeks revenge, bringing destruction and disaster in her wake.

Not Rated.

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About Thelonious Monk (soundtrack).