A picture was adapted for the screen by Jean-Claude Carrière and Miloš Forman, based on a French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos, and was directed by Miloš Forman, with screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière.

Valmont received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design (Theodor Pistek).

137 mins.; color

a story is just about a scheming widow woman woman, Merteuil (played by Bening), & her previous lover, Valmont (played by Firth), world health organization have a bet on the corruption of the widow's immature cousin-german, Cecile (played by Balk) astir to exist as married to Merteuil's recent lover. Valmont bets that he may seduce her, potentially though she is an honorable woman. Whenever he wins, he might use Merteuil to clean by having when he might. All the same, in the run of seducing Cecile, he lessens smitten by using a second woman (played by Tilly).

Trivia
The 1988 movie Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich is based on a equivalent book.