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Movie Review: Valmont (Forman)

Valmont is based on the same novel that inspired Dangerous Liaisons and that strange Sarah Michelle Gellar remake. So it has all the period costumes, nice settings, and lots of people with accents running around sleeping with each other. It was enjoyable, very well made, and everyone on screen was very watchable. A little better than I would have expected if I had really expected something beforehand. It was a little strange to think about a society where wives and husbands and lovers are all accepted. It is definitely not what I am used to. I also wondered about the scene where Annette Benning's character receives a letter that she hides from Valmont. We weren't supposed to know what the letter was about, were we? With the joking around going on during the movie I wasn't sure if I had missed something. Other people who had already seen this said I hadn't.