Synopsis
Paris, 1835. As though to ward off the death throes of the era, the aristocracy engages in Dangerous Liaison-style games (half a century after the epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos was published), pretending to still believe that they're living in the Age of Enlightenment. The Marquise de Flers decides to marry off her young daughter, a jewel of the French aristocracy, to Ryno de Marigny, a kind of romantic Valmont. But what no one knows is that this inveterate Don Juan has been the lover and prey of a scandalous courtesan, a devilish seductress, the illegitimate daughter of a duchess and a toreador.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Flach Film
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, France 3 Cinéma, CB Films
- Foreign production company : Buskin Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pyramide International
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- Executive Producer : Jean-François Lepetit
- Screenwriter : Catherine Breillat
- Director of Photography : Yorgos Arvanitis
- Assistant directors : Michaël Weill, Lola Ursino
- Editor : Pascale Chavance
- Sound recordists : Yves Osmu, Yves Levêque, Sylvain Lasseur, Roland Duboué, Emmanuel Croset
- Costume designers : Anaïs Romand, Karine Charpentier
- Author of original work : Barbey D'Aurevilly
- Assistant Operators : Léonidas Arvanitis, Fabienne Octobre, Cendrine Dedise, Nathalie Lao
- Production Manager : Eddy Jabès
- Press Attaché (film) : Alexandra Schamis
- Assistant editor : Gordana Othnin-Girard
- Continuity supervisor : Angeliki Arvanitis
- Production Designer : François-Renaud Labarthe
- Foley artist : Christophe Bourreau
- Casting : Michaël Weill
- Unit Production Manager : Jean-Louis Bergamini
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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