MORNING REGISTER
For once, this week’s series seems to have come together to prove that old recipes are sometimes the best. From the umpteenth adaptation Dangerous connection to the strangest thrillers, Merteuil, Turning point And The beast inside me updating outdated motifs.
“Merteuil”: the sexual and sentimental education of a marquise
The most unoriginal ideas sometimes give rise to truly inspiring series. This occurs in variations of the themed prequel form Dangerous connectionwritten by Jean-Baptiste Delafon and directed by Jessica Palud, who reunited for the event with Anamaria Vartolomei, whom she once directed Maria. The awestruck look the director gives his translator gives away a lot Merteuil beyond his very simple project of imagining a meeting between the future Marquise de Merteuil, played by Vartolomei, and Valmont (Vincent Lacoste), who will introduce him and his aunt (played in the series by Diane Kruger) to libertinism.
The idea of the series is to make these events of the past coincide with those well known in the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published in 1782 – the power play surrounding the young couple formed by Cécile de Volanges (Fantine Harduin) and the knight Danceny (Samuel Kircher), Valmont’s feelings for the president Tourvel (Noée Abita), Merteuil’s hatred of a society that prevents him from playing as an equal with men.
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