Of course, love complicates matters, leading one of the Power players who are continually trying to outwit each other. So the scenes between our two chess players are riveting, especially because McTeer and Schreiber have such great chemistry. As Rosemonde says, "The only thing you must know is how little the world changes." Indeed, men and women (and, I'm sure, men and men, and women and women) still play games with one another, and when it comes to matters of the heart, it's always a high stakes game. The Marquise–Valmont character study is fascinating. And I’ve succeeded because I’ve always known I was born toĭominate your sex and avenge my own. Not only myself, but ways of escape that no one has ever thought ofīefore. You can ruin our reputationĪnd our life with a few well-chosen words. Obliged to be far more skillful than men. In fact, in one telling exchange between the Marquise and Valmont, Valmont asks how the Marquise managed to invent herself. This is all a game, and in a game of love, like the game On a bargain: If Valmont can conquer the virtuous Tourvel-and provide written proof of the affair-his reward will be a night with the Marquise. Tourvel is, helpfully, staying with Valmont's aunt, Madame de Rosemonde ( Mary Beth Peil). That’s too easy, and, anyway, has his sights set on Madame de Tourvel ( Birgitte Hjort Sorensen), a married woman with a reputation for moral certitude. The Marquise wants Valmont to seduce the virginal Cecile ( Elena Kampouris) so as to humiliate Merteuil's ex.
The action of Christopher Hampton's play is set in Paris and the French countryside in the early 1780s, and centers on the chess match being played by one-time lovers La Marquise de Merteuil ( Janet McTeer, making a meal out of Hampton's words) and Le Vicomte de Valmont ( Liev Schreiber). “Those most worthy of love are never made happy by it," but that doesn't stop the characters in Les Liaisons Dangereuses from pursuing it.
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