Feb 13th   
Dangerous Liaisons** (15)
(Electric Palace, Harwich)

(US 1988)
Warner Bros/Lorimar.NFH. 119m.

The notorious womanising Viscomte de Valmont plays seduction games with a former lover, including the seduction of a woman of virtue...but love plays a hand.
Choderlos de Laclos's dark novel set in pre-revolutionary France, presented as an 18th century film noir, also harking back to Hollywood's costume melodramas of the 1930s and 40s, with lavish costumes and calculating performances. Lots of sex,but not especially sexy.

Written by: Christopher Hampton, from his play.
Producers: Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean.
Director: Stephen Frears.
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Capaldi, Mildred Natwick.
Photography: Philippe Rousselot.
Music: George Fenton.
Costume: James Acheson.

+ followed by a Q&A with director Stephen Frears, as a fund raiser for the Electric Palace