This is a scandalous drama about the sexual machinations of two jaded French aristocrats who use sex and desire as weapons of destruction and as means to hunt for revenge and acquire power. As they climb the social ladder they ruin the lives of the innocent people who surround them.

The Marquise de Merteuil lives in a world of drawing rooms and boudoirs, where she preys upon the innocent and naive, shattering their idealism with a triumphant laugh. Her partner and confidant is the Vicomte de Valmont, who was once her lover and is now her weapon against young women presumptuous enough to love. Seduction is nothing more than a game to them and in their private score keeping, nothing count

These privileged creatures of France possessed the vast majority of wealth and committed the most scandalous of acts against both their piers and those of lower social standing. It is little wonder a revolution was on the horizon.

Merteuil and Valmont's greatest pleasure is causing the loss of virtue and shattering hearts. They disguise their depraved indifference as principles to live by and scorn those who experience true emotions. They are so hardened to the ordinary feelings of life that only one emotion can destroy them: love.

s more than a heart destroyed and hopes laid to waste. The cold-blooded twosome proceeds gleefully with their heartless scheme until true love unexpectedly alters the course of events.

I suggest Merteuil's bitter reaction was a result of the obvious sexual tension that exists between herself and Valmont. Although, these individuals seem not capable of any emotion, it is almost out of jealousy that she lashes out over Madame de Tourvel. All of the feigned emotions of the game of seduction turn into the real emotions of the game of betrayal.

Although, it would be a mistake to depict Valmont as anything but the monster that he is, there seems to be a small measure of actual 'affection' for Tourvel, however short-lived. Once Valmont shares this strange and unexpected interest in Madame de Tourvel, the Marquise de Merteuil is enraged. She considers it an appalling sign of weakness. This is too much for the Marquise; as her instrument, the Vicomte may mak

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