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Where was Dangerous Liaisons filmed?

1988 film, directed by Stephen Frears.

  • Hôtel de Sully

The story is set in Paris, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Paris
Filmed in
Hôtel de Sully

About Dangerous Liaisons

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Released
1988
Director
Stephen Frears
Cast
Glenn CloseJohn MalkovichMichelle PfeifferUma ThurmanKeanu ReevesSwoosie KurtzMildred NatwickLaura BensonPeter CapaldiJoe Sheridan
Genre
RomanceDramaErotic
Based on
Les liaisons dangereuses, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Awards
César Award for Best Foreign Film; Academy Award for Best Writing; Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Costume Design and 5 more

The story

In pre-Revolution Paris, the Marquise de Merteuil plots revenge against her ex-lover, the Comte de Bastide, who recently ended their relationship.

He instructs his page Azolan to seduce Tourvel's maid, Julie, and gain access to Tourvel's private correspondence.

They fall in love, with coaxing from Merteuil, who knows that Danceny, as a nobleman of lesser rank, naïve, young, and not particularly wealthy, can never be accepted as a suitor.

Famous lines from Dangerous Liaisons

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • All right: war!Marquise de Merteuil
  • All in good time.Vicomte de Valmont
  • But, why? Why should that be?Madame Marie de Tourvel
  • Yes, but what I asked was how.Vicomte de Valmont
  • The century is drawing to its close.Marquise de Merteuil

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