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

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

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 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

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

Worth seeking out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2004

A 10-course treat for the eyes and ears.

| Oct 14, 2004

E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement.

| Oct 12, 2004

Yet another soulless adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2004

Pallid acting and a general lack of spirit ultimately result in a bland costume drama.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2004

This viciously purring Korean comedy of sexual conquest in the New Directors/New Films Series employs many of the plot mechanisms used in Christopher Hampton's version of Liaisons Dangereuses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 31, 2004