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‘ Dangerous Liaisons’ Trailer Starz Reimagines the Psychosexual Classic

Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton star as the scheming seducers in the Starz adaptation of the novel

Samantha Bergeson Sep 28, 2022 1:45 pm Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk “Dangerous Liaisons” Starz Seduction has never schemed so hard. The critically acclaimed novel turned three-time Academy Award winning film “Dangerous Liaisons” is now adapted into a Starz series, premiering November 6. Per an official synopsis, “Dangerous Liaisons” is a bold prelude of Laclos' classic 18th-century novel focusing on the origin story of how his iconic characters, the Marquise de Merteuil (Alice Englert) and the Vicomte de Valmont (Nicholas Denton), met as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of the revolution. This modern take on a classic story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation, seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the young couple's survival depends on their skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but of each other. The current Marquise de Merteuil (Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently taken from him. Their on- again off-again love story is the heart of the series.

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