"Directed by Jessica Palud, created and co-written by Jean-Baptiste Delafon alongside Palud and Gaëlle Bellan, this six-episode reimagining of the highly effective and popular story is a French HBO Original, arriving on November 14. If you're expecting another mirror of the novel or any of the movies, this new series dodges the expected. Here, the lady Isabelle de Merteuil, her equally conniving lover Sébastien de Valmont, and the other well-known characters are reconfigured with many of their plotlines and traits broken up and redistributed."
"If you came for the original's letter-writing power plays, you'll get those with a remix. Les Liaisons Dangereuses is about the treacherous duel between Merteuil and Valmont. In "The Seduction," Anamaria Vartolomei's Merteuil isn't the elite player we know. She's a young woman living in a convent who claws her way into prominence after Valmont ( Vincent Lacoste) betrays her. At the same time, Diane Kruger portrays his aunt and her mentor-in-malice, Madame de Rosemonde."
HBO's The Seduction is a six-episode French reimagining of Les Liaisons Dangereuses directed by Jessica Palud and co-written by Jean-Baptiste Delafon and Gaëlle Bellan, arriving November 14. The series reconfigures Isabelle de Merteuil, Sébastien de Valmont, and other characters by breaking up and redistributing plotlines and traits. The show preserves letter-writing power plays but remixes them. Isabelle is portrayed as a young woman raised in a convent who claws into prominence after Valmont betrays her. Diane Kruger plays Madame de Rosemonde, Valmont's aunt and Merteuil's mentor-in-malice. The series examines psychological wounds, cruel desires, trickery, and libertine dynamics across genders.
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