Les liaisons dangereuses

Les liaisons dangereuses is a 1959 French-Italian drama directed by Roger Vadim, loosely adapted from Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's celebrated 1782 epistolary novel. Vadim transplants the story's web of seduction and manipulation into contemporary France rather than its original eighteenth-century setting. The screenplay is credited to Roger Vailland, working with Vadim. Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim and Jean-Louis Trintignant head the cast. The film stands as one of the period's notable literary adaptations, reworking the novel's world of aristocratic intrigue, where love and betrayal are treated as a game, in a modern frame.