A sumptuously mounted celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal, and sexual intrigue among
depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons, based on Christopher Hampton's
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses", is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise
De Merteuil and the Vicomte De Valmont, who have cultivated their mutual cynicism into a highly
developed and exquisitely mannered form of (in-)human expression.
