But it’s probably best known for its onscreen versions: director Stephen Frears’s multiple-Oscar-winning 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, based on Christopher Hampton’s play Milos Forman’s Valmont, the following year and Roger Kumble’s 1999 salacious teen melodrama Cruel Intentions, which moves the action from pre-Revolutionary France to a setting governed by just as much back-biting and social climbing-a private Manhattan high school. Since then, his epistolary novel has been adapted multiple times, in multiple countries (Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic), in multiple forms (ballet, theater, opera). Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published Les Liaisons dangereuses-about former lovers who keep their poisonous friendship alive by challenging one another to seduce targets in their elevated social circle-in 1782.
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