Mouret's version is very effective, and well worth seeing. The actors are convincing and the dramatic tension sustained throughout. This is a serious and intriguing work.

| Feb 10, 2021

It's a period drama, no doubt, but you'd never describe it as musty.

| Mar 15, 2019

French drama about infidelity and passion has nudity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2019

Mouret manipulates our sympathies effortlessly as the story zigzags its way... to its ultimately surprising and quite satisfying resolution.

| Mar 8, 2019

Anyone who loves "Dangerous Liaisons" - in any of its iterations - should rush to cue up "Lady J," a period romance with a similarly wicked sense of comic melodrama.

| Mar 7, 2019

Perfectly paced Mademoiselle de Joncquières takes its time in revealing its hidden, if ultimately ambivalent, motivations.

| Jan 31, 2019

Based loosely on a short story by Denis Diderot, this is decadently delicious and was among the top three films seen at the festival.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2018

"Mademoiselle de Joncquieres" takes a stealthy and slow-burn approach before fully revealing its true colors as a shrewdly choreographed roundelay of scheming, seduction and revenge in the spirit of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."

| Sep 27, 2018

That the fact of the whore pretending to be the virgin reveals more about the surrounding society than the deception itself is fascinating, yet it happens too late-and the film is a bit too taken with itself to notice.

| Sep 11, 2018

Lush costumes, languid pacing and the elaborate syntax of the 18th-century all create an exquisitely measured effect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2018

A pleasurable way indeed to pass two hours at the cinema.

| Sep 10, 2018

As comical and critical as it is decadent, Emmanuel Mouret's film eventually hits a sour note that's unfortunately too predictable for a work made by a man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2018

This is an uncommonly talky picture which perhaps overestimates the fascination of forensically thorough analyses of 18th century society gossip.

| Sep 8, 2018