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In contrast, Valmont's seduction of Cécile, really a kind of rape, is raw, powerful and hard to watch. In any case, she doesn't reach us emotionally - nor do we quite understand why Valmont would violate his principles by falling in love with her. She speaks perfect English but doesn't seem comfortable expressing emotion in the language, resulting in a rather flat performance, which isn't helped by her mature, sophisticated voice.
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The problem is compounded by the performance of Sorensen, a Danish actress best known for the TV series "Borgen," who's also appeared on "Game of Thrones" and in the film "Pitch Perfect 2." His initial approach to Tourvel is so obviously insincere, as are most of his follow-ups, that you can't believe that this moral paragon of a woman would fall madly in love with him.
Schreiber has powerful moments, but, wearing an awful wig that seems pasted to his head, he's not the most subtle boulevardier on the rue. There are underlined double-entendres, usually spoken by Valmont, that get easy laughs, and some strained bits of physical humor.
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In the new production, staged by British director Josie Rourke, the physical atmosphere is also that of a world in the process of crumbling, with paintings removed from a majestic room one by one to reveal cracked and peeling walls.īut the fraught psychological atmosphere is diluted at times by comedy. My touchstone for the play is the original 1987 Broadway production, in which Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan as the conniving pair created an atmosphere of pure, merciless evil, an immorality of class that would be bloodily purged by the French Revolution. Merteuil wants Valmont to seduce the foolish, teen-aged Cécile Vol-anges before her marriage, while he has his eye on conquering the virtue of Madame de Tourvel (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen), a good and faithful wife. They try to inflict pain and embarrassment on the people around them, simply to exercise their power, and as a twisted way of bonding. La Marquise de Merteuil (McTeer) and le Vicomte de Valmont (Schrei-ber), once lovers, have become intimate conspirators in cruelty. With Janet McTeer, Liev Schreiber and Birgitte Hjort Sorensen. Broadway play revival at the Booth Theatre, 222 W.
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