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‘Dangerous Liaisons’ With Cecilia Cheung and Ziyi Zhang.

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Director : Jin-ho Hur.
Writers : Choderlos de Laclos (novel), Geling Yan (screenplay).
Stars : Cecilia Cheung, Dong-gun Jang and Ziyi Zhang.Genre : Drama, Mystery, Romance.
Runtime : 110 minute.

The story and its players look different in the latest screen iteration of “Dangerous Liaisons,” but the venomous passions remain repellently, seductively familiar. Bankrolled by Chinese money and directed by a South Korean filmmaker, Jin-ho Hur, this Chinese-language version of the 18th-century French novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos opens in Shanghai in 1931, when the city was known as the Paris of the Orient. (Now it’s just the center of the world.) That year a fighting-trim Mao Zedong helped create the Chinese Soviet Republic, and Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria, setting up a puppet government. The second Sino-Japanese war was six years away.

Geopolitical tensions simmer at the outermost edges of “Dangerous Liaisons,” which mostly unfolds as a divertingly lush tear-stained melodrama. Written by Yan Geling, it follows the overall streamlined contours and devious intrigues familiar from Stephen Frears’s 1988 film of the Christopher Hampton stage adaptation. Once again a suave rake, Xie Yifan (Jang Dong-gun, wearing a Clark Gable smirk and ’stache), spends his nights busily bedding the local talent and his days sharing gossip with a female counterpart, Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung). They are effectively the Shanghai match of Laclos’s Vicomte de Valmont and Marquise de Merteuil, the twinned vipers who, while nestled in the bosom of the city’s high society, conspire to seduce, conquer and destroy their prey. 

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