In a game of seduction, never fall in love.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Michelle Pfeiffer, Frances Tomelty, Tom Burke, Rupert Friend, Hubert Tellegen, Joe Sheridan, Kathy Bates |
| Director |
Stephen Frears |
| Screenplay | Christopher Hampton, based on the novels by Colette |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat |
| Cinematography | Darius Khondji |
| Editing | Lucia Zucchetti |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2009 |
| Produced by | A consortium of European companies |
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| Genre | Drama, romance |
| Language | Very mild, infrequent |
| Nudity | Sexul nudity, long shots, breasts and buttocks |
| Sex | Strong sex and sexual conduct, frequent, high impact |
| Violence | Reference to suicide |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | Some tobacco smoking, references to drugs, briefly implied, infrequent |
| Comments | None |
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Blood / Gore / Gross |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Attiyah Kahn  The deadliest of all desires is obsession | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Paul Boekkooi | 10 | |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turan La belle Michelle triumphs | 15 |  |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 18 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Twenty-one years after getting in bed together for Dangerous Liaisons, the team of Michelle Pfeiffer, writer Christopher Hampton and director Stephen Frears reconvene for a spotty but sufficiently sprightly take on two novels by Colette. | 10 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers | 15 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs While it might rack up some award nominations for its sets, costumes and such, it's too bad the writing, directing and acting don't match all of the hours and hard work that obviously went into making this pretty, but pretty boring offering. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 27 critics | 13 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 116 critics | 11 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A too-short script and a romance lacking in heat detracts from an otherwise haughty charmer. | 11 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1868 Netizens Sanitized Colette | 13 | |
Average .. 61% | 12 | |