If you've never seen another version and love costume drama, this is the one to see. If you have, you'll probably find it frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2005

Untold Scandal, the latest screen adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a stylish, cool and detached interpretation of an overworked text.

| Oct 27, 2005

Handsome production values, solid ensemble performances and explorations of Far Eastern civilization.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2005

Among the many movie versions of this tale, Untold Scandal is one of the most visually arresting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2005

A Frenchman may have thought of the story first, but this Korean film pays tribute to the original while perfectly standing on its own.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 25, 2005

A gorgeous setting and ferociously charming cast add unexpected depths to this scalding saga of manipulation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2005

An elegant yet unassuming variation [Les Liaisons Dangereuses].

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Adds a vibrant cultural framework to a familiar story, and it turns out nothing becomes a legend like an Asian makeover.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2005

Pictorially sumptuous and sexually provocative.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 24, 2004

Doesn't have anything new to add to de Laclos' text, but it is an interesting and worthwhile cultural variation on his immortal theme.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2004

Of all the Liaisons adaptations, this may be the most sentimental.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2004

Anyone coming to the tale for the first time will not be disappointed--the fierce emotions and devious plot machinations are every bit as effective here as in either the Frears or Forman films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2004

Choderlos de Laclos' novel has survived this long for a reason, and Untold Scandal shows us exactly what that is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2004

This deliciously wicked retelling brings fresh suspense and sorrow to the tale.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 22, 2004

Director Lee Je-Yong gives the book a makeover full of wit and startling beauty as a tragicomedy of Korean manners at the dawn of the Chosun dynasty in the late 18th century.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2004

Every attempt I have seen to adapt it on film -- Dangerous Liaisons, Cruel Intentions, even the trashy 1959 Roger Vadim version -- has resulted in an entertainment of agreeable nasty elegance. Until now.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 20, 2004

Korean director Je-yong Lee puts a compelling cross-cultural spin on a familiar plot in this erotic, Eastern adaptation of the Chodelos de Laclos' 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2004

A beguiling mix of the familiar and the exotic, vivid proof that a good story can withstand endless variations without losing its fundamental vitality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2004