Dangerous_Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a complex and disturbing portrayal of the noble class in France. Set in the late eighteenth century just before the revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses weaves a web of cold, calculated betrayal of the most immoral kind. It is a mannered, elegant tale in which the languorous intrigues of the opening scenes set up the violent passions of the later ones. It is a story in which the surfaces are usually calm and only the flash of an eye or a slightly raised voice betrays the most terrible struggles going on beneath. This is a scandalous drama about the sexual machinations of two jaded French aristocrats who use sex and desire as weapons of destruction and as means to hunt for revenge and acquire power. As they climb the social ladder they ruin the lives of the innocent people who surround them. The Marquise de Merteuil lives in a world of drawing rooms and boudoirs, where she preys upon the innocent and naive, shattering their idealism with a triumphant laugh. Her partner and confidant is the Vicomte de Valmont, who was once her lover and is now her weapon against young women presumptuous de, valmont, merteuil, tourvel, marquise, love, madame, liaisons, dangereuses, virtue, vicomte, seduction, lives, les, however, young, two, story, sexual, order, innocent, game, france, emotions, cecile, against, until, unfolds, ultimately, true, time, thus, tale, social, shattering, set, seems, scandalous, revolution, real, pursuit, prey, pleasure, people, out, one, once, nothing, means