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Dangerous Liaisons

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An aging socialite (Cecilia Cheung) dares a former lover (Jang Dong-gun) to win, bed and leave a chaste woman (Ziyi Zhang), but the plan goes awry when the infamous ladykiller begins to fall in love with his mark.
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Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic 06/17/2013
They have made the film function successfully almost as well as in the original setting. Go to Full Review
Kate Taylor Globe and Mail 11/09/2012
2/4
Much of the cynicism, and thus the fun, of its many Western predecessors goes missing. Go to Full Review
Manohla Dargis New York Times 11/08/2012
3.5/5
Schadenfreude carries a delectable tang no matter the language, and as the history of Hollywood shows, stories about pretty people behaving badly remain reliably alluring. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/06/2019
For those familiar with the material, besides the language and location, there's absolutely nothing new brought to material that's been done better, several times before. Go to Full Review
Richard Yu Cinema Escapist 07/01/2019
The film lives up to its expectations by presenting a beautifully tragic story of how one woman's scheming ends up costing the people who surround her dearly. Go to Full Review
CJ Johnson Film Mafia 12/04/2012
3.5/5
The cinematography is gorgeous, the costumes are gorgeous, the sets are gorgeous, and the people are so gorgeous it beggars belief. What can I say? Gorgeous. Go to Full Review
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02/19/2016 It's actually more than OK. See more 02/17/2016 Is this the best version of this story ever told? Tough call, but possibly yes. It wouldn't exist without its forebears, there's a couple of moments shamelessly pulled from the Stephen Frears version, the treatment of the Cecile character owes more than a little to Cruel Intentions, and the references to the politics of the new setting feel somewhat tacked on. Nonetheless, it's one of the most sumptuous films ever made in terms of design, and if it leads you in with your eyes, the script does the whole thing justice. Cecelia Cheung absolutely marvels in taking on a role that's been done by Jeanne Moreau, Annette Bening and Glenn Close and making it her own tour de force so that you don't know whether to cheer or run screaming. See more 11/02/2015 Let's all indulge ourselves and live without consequence. yay!... not. See more 06/12/2014 well crafted chinese version of the french novel and pic See more 08/26/2013 Camera is amazing, the story is a bit weak. Nothing too impressive See more 08/17/2013 2.5/5 --- Decent could've been much better...was expecting more so I ended up being more disappointed! Plot that's been done a thousand times over in a million over movies/plays, story was slow and predictable, cinematography was ok, sometimes weird angles of blurry close ups and then panning...Acting was good, Zhang Ziyi performs well though it's strange and almost unfitting of her to play such a weak role/character. Other characters were stereotypical, setting was also odd 1931 China looks extremely glamourous. It's so nice to not have to read subtitles (I miss Chinese films)...Wonder who does them and how some end up translated so wrong? At least there were no misspellings :D See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis An aging socialite (Cecilia Cheung) dares a former lover (Jang Dong-gun) to win, bed and leave a chaste woman (Ziyi Zhang), but the plan goes awry when the infamous ladykiller begins to fall in love with his mark.
Director
Hur Jin-ho
Producer
Chen Weiming
Screenwriter
Yan Geling
Distributor
Well Go USA
Production Co
Zonbo Media
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 9, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 11, 2013
Runtime
1h 45m
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