Word: valmont
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 18th century France, the plot revolves around two protagonists: La Marquise de Merteuil (Alison Weller) and le Vicomte de Valmont (Tom Hughes). Love and Revenge are their favorite games. When successful conquests bolster this pride, it gets beyond their control. They sacrifice all for the preservation of this lethal trait...
...Valmont encounters and subdues several women, from the naive Cecile Volanges (Bina Martin) to the promiscuous courtesan, Emilie (Danielle Kwatinetz). His primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates...
...first in Valmont (1989), in which her glossy beauty and Gioconda smile provided the film's finest moments. Raised in Kansas and Southern California, Bening, 33, caught the theater bug in college. The Broadway hit Coastal Disturbances (1987) launched her career, and soon films were beckoning too. Now, after the critical success of The Grifters, she gets the top dramatic scripts...
...studio that released both hits. The Jodie Foster thriller and the Kevin Costner western come at the end of a losing streak that has lasted more than two years and helped run up $500 million of debt with such busts as The Hot Spot, State of Grace and Valmont. So even though Lambs and Wolves together have grossed a stellar $230 million, Orion is struggling to keep the wolves from the door...
Annette Bening plays whores too -- Hollywood sometimes thinks that for women prostitution is the world's only profession -- but these doxies are in control. The smile that dimples her face in Valmont and The Grifters signals the sexual predator anticipating a hearty meal. An off-Broadway alumnus, Bening also did brief time in Postcards from the Edge as a romantic rival of Meryl Streep's. Time will tell if she can challenge Streep's pre-eminence. For now she seems a better bet as a threat to Kathleen Turner; she comes on like Turner's slim, sex-kitten kid sister...