Dangerous Liaisons (1959)

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Movie
German title Dangerous romances
Original title Les liaisons dangereuses
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1959
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Roger Vadim
script Roger Vadim,
Roger Vailland ,
Claude Brulé
production Léopold Schlosberg
music James Campbell-Badiane ,
Duke Jordan ,
Thelonious Monk
camera Marcel Grignon
cut Victoria Mercanton
occupation
synchronization

Dangerous Liaisons (original title: Les Liaisons dangereuses ) is an Italian - French film adaptation of the eponymous letter novel (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos with Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe from 1959.

action

Juliette de Merteuil and the Viscount de Valmont had an open marriage in Paris in the 1950s. They enjoy cheating on each other and then telling each other about their amorous adventures. When Juliette's lover, Jerry Court, decides to marry her young cousin, Cécile Volanges, Juliette asks her husband to seduce Cécile before the wedding. However, the young girl is actually in love with the student Danceny, who asks her to wait for him until he has finished his studies. Together with Court and her mother Madame Volanges, Cécile drives to the French winter sports resort of Megève . Valmont also arrives there, to whom Cécile tells of her secret love for Danceny. When Valmont fell while skiing, he met the beautiful Marianne Tourvel. Marianne , who comes from Denmark , is taking a winter holiday with her mother and young daughter Caroline , while her husband Henri is attending a conference. Valmont is immediately drawn to her modest restraint and virtue. Juliette, who raved about Valmont in a letter from Marianne, also travels to Megève.

Meanwhile, Cécile receives a tape with a message from Danceny that she would like to hear. Valmont, who is staying in the same hotel, offers her to use his tape recorder . When Cécile is already asleep, Valmont goes into her room with the device and wakes her up. While listening to Danzeny's declaration of love, Valmont begins to get close to Cécile. She asks him to go. When he threatens her with a scandal, she is forced to give in to him.

On New Year's Eve, Valmont and Marianne see each other again in a ski hut. Valmont invites her to dance and instead of Juliette, gives her the first kiss of the new year at midnight. While he dances with Juliette, Madame Volanges warns Marianne of Valmont's intentions. Although this Marianne told Marianne about his open marriage and his affairs right at the beginning of their acquaintance, Marianne is angry that he apparently also regards her as prey. In his room, which he made available to Marianne shortly before, Valmont confesses his love to Marianne. However, she rejects him. Meanwhile, Juliette is convinced that Valmont loves Marianne more than she does. To prove that this is not the case, Valmont, after conquering Marianne, is supposed to drop her ice cold.

Both Juliette and Marianne eventually leave. While Juliette travels to New York on business, Marianne returns to her house in Paris. Since he cannot reach her by phone, Valmont also drives back to Paris. He visits Marianne and tells her that he will leave France to forget her. When he lets her understand that he wanted to kill himself out of unrequited love for her, Marianne finally gives in and lets him kiss her. In another letter to Juliette, Valmont raves about his night with Marianne. When Juliette returns from New York, Cécile tells her that she is pregnant by Valmont. At Cecile's request, Juliette should speak to Denceny and persuade him to marry Cécile. Instead, Juliette advises him not to get married, which would be in the way of his career at this point.

After a short vacation together in Normandy , Valmont can't bring herself to dump Marianne. In his presence, Juliette has a telegram sent to Marianne, with which she declares the relationship ended on Valmont's behalf. Juliette then wants to meet Danceny at a party, which she has enjoyed in the meantime. Valmont displeases Juliette's plan and appears at the same party with Cécile. Cécile and Danzeny talk to each other and then dance together. In order to return the favor to Valmont, Juliette gives Danceny a letter from Valmont in his apartment. The document shows that Valmont was Cecile's lover. Jealous, Danceny returns to the party where Valmont has since gotten drunk and gives his rival a punch. Valmont falls to the ground and hits his head unhappily on the ground. Marianne learns of Valmont's death from the newspaper. Her mother then finds her mentally confused. When a police inspector is investigating, Juliette burns numerous letters in a sink and catches fire herself. During the subsequent trial she faces the press with a disfigured face.

background

Dangerous Liaisons premiered in France on September 9, 1959. Leading actor Gérard Philipe died of liver cancer nine weeks later at the age of only 36 . Jeanne Moreau made her breakthrough in her homeland with the film. In Germany, the film was released on October 6, 1961. On December 25, 1972, the film adaptation was shown for the first time on German television. Thelonious Monk's score was rediscovered in the 2000s and released on the 1960 album Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 2017 .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes the film as "[e] her pleasurable rather than critical, more tasty than artful and more speculative than serious". “A French variant of the 'Dolce Vita' is described with a lot of fashionable chic”. Cinema stated that director Roger Vadim was "not a masterpiece" "- in contrast to Stephen Frears, who had Glenn Close and John Malkovich lasciviously intrigued in 1988". The soundtrack of Thelonious Monk "just bubbles away", it goes on to say. The sober conclusion was: "As decadent as a kidney-shaped table."

According to the television magazine Prisma , the film "filmed during the awakening of the nouvelle vague" "joins the works of unconventional auteur filmmakers such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard". With Dangerous Liaisons , “Roger Vadim brought the subject matter of the Parisian elegant parties and jazz clubs of the late 1950s back to life”.

German version

role actor Voice actor
Juliette de Merteuil Jeanne Moreau Marion Degler
Viscount de Valmont Gérard Philipe Robert Graf
Danzeny Jean-Louis Trintignant Klaus Kindler

Web links

Soundtracks

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for dangerous love affairs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; re-examination, formerly FSK 18, test number: 25718V).
  2. ^ Dangerous liaisons. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  5. ^ Dangerous liaisons. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 23, 2018 .