Marie Gicquel / Photo credit: Copyright Paramount 09:42, April 29, 2023
Almost 40 years later, the film directed by Adrian Lyne is back on the screens. But this time, the thriller "Fatal Liaison" is to be rediscovered in series version next May on the streaming platform Paramount +.Remember that movie that still makes you shiver... Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in "Fatal Liaison". This cult film of the 80s is adapted into a series by Paramount+, and was screened a few days ago in preview at CANNESERIES. Europe 1 attended the screening.
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A film brought up to date
The Croisette relied heavily on this adultery that degenerates to enjoy a breath of sensuality and excitement. Dan and Alex work in the same building in New York, three insistent glances in the elevator and they fall into infidelity. The American screenwriter Alexandra Cunningham, who had worked for Desperate Housewives, had to transform the script of the cult film with Michael Douglas to adapt it into a series. "Dan's lies reverberate throughout his life, including his colleagues. In the film, it was more isolated, it impacted his wife, his daughter and of course Alex. For the series, we have widened the circle, and therefore there are more people destroyed, "she details at the microphone of Europe 1.
But this fatal serial link is not lightning. A lot of slow-motion shots and little harmony between the two actors. Only interesting element, perhaps the décor with this elevator, ideal closed door. Let him go up and take the stairs instead.