Dangerous Connections (film, 1959)

See also: dangerous Connections (homonymy)

the dangerous Connections is a Film French, carried out by Roger Vadim, left on the screens in 1959 with Gerard Philippe, Jeanne Moreau, Annette Stroyberg (Annette Vadim wife of Roger Vadim), Jean-Louis Trintignant, Boris Vian…

This film is an adaptation of the great classic, the novel the dangerous Connections of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Synopsis

The very tempting Valmont Viscount and his wife Juliette de Merteuil, played by Gerard Philippe and Jeanne Moreau at the top of their beauty and their youth have only one pleasure, to like and " to have fun " to destroy the hearts of the others by destroying the couples with the perverse plays of the " seduction/destruction " cold and premeditated where they are Masters. They attack proudly especially the most solid individuals of most difficult virtue and morals and with dépraver while using of all their know-how on the matter and high capacity of seduction and depravity in a way cynical and premeditated until, through destruction of others, their plays end up destroying them themselves…

Immoral point of view of film

“An impregnable fortress is a badly attacked fortress”.

Valmont eager to avenge his viperine true Juliette wife gotten rid of by her lover is diverted his mission in order to besiege virtuous Marianne.

Roger Vadim launched since 1956 with And God… created the woman an enormous building site intended to work out a free cinema which unties the cerebral bonds and releases the private bodies of lights pervert…

Nudities while remaining pure are shown. The hearts make knowledge with the territory of perversity. The jazz makes whirl the couples at the bottom of smoked out cellars. The watchword is to allure in an immoral way, to hustle too old laws of conformisms which pollute since decades an art which chokes by opposition to progress. The temperaments are finally egoistic and mockers of an environment moralist.

Every man for himself by the pleasure without love.

The hearts are released in new rules. Valmont and Juliette live each one on their sides of the adventures without reserves.

The paroxysm of the excitation is reached by the mutual narration their routes in love.

Innovating in the shared pleasure, they are unaware of that this play only based on the pleasure is only durable short-term and fatal, one of the two protagonists will be made trap by most frightening of the traps: feelings.

Roger Vadim is innovator, all is new, therefore by disturbing amalgam. Marianne is pure but under this chastity, a need to free sommeille. Valmont does not have to force to make bend this decency dissimulated behind the assent.

The novel of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is only one pretext for this young person and brilliance director wishing to innovate by new impulses that the spectator does not know yet by exploiting the topic of perversion in seventh Article.

The contribution of the existentialism of the Fifties défoule by the gesture and the unslung word a whole population tasting at its first years of freedom after one testing Second world war.

Certain scenes are aesthetically very beautiful by the position of the bodies which are given up without inevitably to have fought in a wild way.

Marianne properly wishing to leave its chastity is adorable by its double function of attraction and resistance which sied so marvelously to the women.

Data sheet

  • Realization: Roger Vadim

  • Scenario: Roger Vadim, Claude Brulé and Roger Vailland, adapted Romance éponyme of Laclos.
  • Dialog: Roger Vailland
  • Assistant realizer: Jacques Poitrenaud
  • Production and Distribution: The Films Marceau
  • Chief of production: Edmond Ténoudji
  • Directing of production: Léopold Schlosberg
  • Original music: Art Blakey' S jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk, Jack Murray, Barney Wilen
  • Images: Marcel Oil cake
  • Operator: Raymond Lemoigne
  • Sound: Robert Biart
  • Assembly: Roger Mercanton
  • Decorations: Robert Guisgand
  • Make-up: Jean Ulysses
  • Photographer of plate: Serge Beauvarlet
  • Script girl: Suzanne Durrenberger
  • general Manager: Michel Choquet
  • Turning from February 23rd to April 30th, 1959
  • Costumes:
  • French film
  • Format: 35mm, black and white
  • Sound: Dolby
  • Lasted: 105 mn
  • Kind: drama
  • Coming out date: 9/9/1959

Distribution

Note relating to the distribution

The sequence re-examined attentively on dvd, it is well the actor-stuntman Guy Henry and not Marcel Bernier who plays the inspector " éteignant" Juliette Merteuil in the sequence " incendie".

External bond

  • Cards “dangerous Connections” on Internet Movie Database

  • Interview " Vidéo" of Roger and Annette Vadim in 1960 for the promotion of their film (French-speaking Switzerland Television)

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