The Seduction

Matt Roush says...

HBO’s first French-language production is a loose and sexually lurid six-part adaptation of the oft-filmed Les Liaisons Dangereuses — or, if you will, “Dangerous Liaisons” — this time told largely from the perspective of the ill-used and vengeful Isabelle (Anamaria Vartolomei). After becoming the Marquise de Merteuil in a match made for power and not for love, Isabelle plots to destroy those libertines in the decadent 18th-century French court who recruited her into this perverse societal game. Diane Kruger costars as her cunning mentor, Madame de Rosemonde, with Vincent Lacoste as the scheming Vicomte de Valmont and Lucas Bravo (Emily in Paris) as Valmont’s rival, Gercourt.

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