Yes, I'm asking for a big fat spoiler. I didn't get to see the ending of the film, and I know the Valmont character dies and Catherine Denueve's character is shamed and all that, but how EXACTLY does this version go about it all?
shareValmont dies my *suicide* over a cliff when he and Raphael are riding their horses in a competition. however he has found out that deneuve's art foundation has not been spending all the money it has been given, so he reports her. She is neither found innocent or guitly, or we are not sure, as it is incidental, the foundation is under her name, so the rebate comes out of her pocket, she is left ruined. Her reputation in tatters. However she is free, her last words are that she will have her revenge. oh and Marie commits suicide also by slitting her rists in the bath tub.
Borderline obsessive
so different from the original movie. in the french version, valmont died when danceny attecked him at a party, his wife's face got burned, and maria went insane.
I kept kissing frogs looking for a prince.
Don't you worry, Safirdragon, you haven't missed anything. This is one of the worse films I have seen in a long time. My wife who has very good taste (look whom she married ...) insisted that we get the 3-disks series from Netflix. I walked out of the room after the first ten minutes of the first disc. Pushed by a kind of masochistic impulse, I came back the second day, toward the last fifteen minutes (she let me in the room, if I promised not to make running comments), and it hadn't gotten better. Tomorrow, we are watching the 3rd episode…I've promise to be quite again, but will I survive?
shareWell, I sat through the 3rd disk, well... almost, as I did indulged in absenting myself from the room a number of times (coffee, ice cream, bathroom, playing with the cats, etc). The 3rd instalment was on a par with the first two episodes: AWFUL! But I enjoyed the interview of Director Josée Dayan, which I found interesting, as she discussed the making of the film, and what she was trying to achieve (but failed to do). I was surprised by the fact that her interviewer said that the gold standard for all the adaptations of de Laclos's novel was the version by Stephen Frears, and she agreed.
I forgot to mention the music by Angelo Badalamenti. It fits the film perfectly: it's also just AWFUL.