Roger Vadim's modern-dress treatment of the eighteenth-century de Laclos novel, with a jazz score featuring Thelonius Monk and Art Blakey, proves convincingly that things like soullessness and moral rot are timeless. The director's ogling, fondling style helps not only to make the point, but to enlarge it. Jeanne Moreau could hardly be improved upon as Mme. de Merteuil, and no one will question Gerard Philipe's credentials as a seducer. With Annette (Stroyberg) Vadim and Jean-Louis Trintignant. (1959) — Duncan Shepherd
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