Film Revue: Valmont (1989)

In another version of Dangerous Liasions, this is a French period piece. It is mostly talking about going after true love no matter what the cost. The 15-year-old innocent, naive girl is played by Fairuza Balk, who is infatuated w/ her 17-year-old music tutor. They write secret love letters to each other. While helping her write a love letter to her music tutor, Valmont ends p in her pants. But Valmont is the one who is pushing her crush/boyfriend/ex-music tutor (gets fired after her mother found out about the love notes he have been sending her. Her mother forbids the lovebirds to meet b/c she already have an arranged marriage w/ her young, naive daughter (naive 'cause she is in convent school all this time). The guy she is arrranged to marry is old and has a lover. You get the picture. She tries all sorts of sneaky ways to meet up w/ her crush/boyfriend, even one time suggesting they married right now. Valmont helps her boyfriend deliver love letters to and from his girlfriend. But at the end, Valmont and the young naive girl's boyfriend have to fight in a duel. A duel to the end! A duel for true love, which you think about it is kinda romantic, but at what cost? Well, anyway, Valmont ends up dying.

I guess everything has its price, including love. Love... What a triangle! Too many lies... Too many deception.. Anyway, the pandora box is full of bad stuff and at the bottom is hope. A tangle web we weave to which we deceive.

Peace and Happiness, ya all!