As Unpredictable As Love Itself

Cesar Awards, France 1990
Won, Cesar
Best Production Design (Meilleurs decors)
Pierre Guffroy

Won, Cesar
Best Costume Design (Meilleurs costumes)
Theodor Pistek

London Critics Circle Film Awards 1992
Won, ALFS Award
Newcomer of the Year
Annette Bening

RELEASED:

USA - 17 November 1989
France - 6 December 1989
West Germany - 14 December 1989
Finland - 15 December 1989
Sweden - 26 January 1990
South Korea - 21 November 1992
Russia - 19 November 2001 (DVD premiere)

RUN TIME:

137 Minutes

AKA:

Ha-Peetooim Ha-Assurim Shel Velmont - Israel (Hebrew title)
Valmont - West Germany
Valmont - Uma História de Seduções - Brazil

FILMING LOCATIONS:

Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, France

Château de la Motte Tilly, Champagne-Ardenne, France

Opéra Comique, Paris, France

Le Musée du Cheval Vivant, Grandes Ecuries, Chantilly, France

City of Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France

Hôtel des Ambassadeurs de Hollande, Paris, France

Cité Episcopale, Meaux, France
Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, Calvados, France

Château de Versailles, France

DIRECTOR: Milos Forman

WRITER: Jean-Claude Carrière, Jan Novak

Cast - in credits order
Colin Firth ... Valmont
Annette Bening ... Madame de Merteuil
Meg Tilly ... Madame de Tourvel
Fairuza Balk ... Cecile de Volanges
Sian Phillips ... Madame de Volanges
Jeffrey Jones ... Gercourt
Henry Thomas ... Chevalier Danceny
Fabia Drake ... Madame de Rosemonde
T.P. McKenna ... Baron
Isla Blair ... Baroness
Ian McNeice ... Azolan
Aleta Mitchell ... Victoire
Ronald Lacey ... Jose
Vincent Schiavelli ... Jean
Sandrine Dumas ... Martine
Sebastien Floche ... Priest
Antony Carrick ... President de Tourvel
Murray Gronwall ... Flea Market Salesman
Alain Frérot ... 1st Thug
Daniel Laloux ... 2nd Thug
Christian Bouillette ... 3rd Thug
John Arnold ... 1st Knight of the Maltese Order
Niels Tavernier ... 2nd Knight of the Maltese Order
Yvette Petit ... Mother Superior
Richard de Burnchurch ... Volanges Major-domo
José Licenziato ... Blind Guitar Player
Ivan Palec ... Servant

Alexis Dessaux... Extra (uncredited)

Eric Moreau... Beggar (uncredited)

Production Companies
Burrill Productions
Renn Productions


Distributors
Condor Vídeo (Brazil) (video)
Nea Kinisi (Greece)
Nea Kinisi Video (Greece) (VHS)
Orion Pictures Corporation
Transmundo Films (Argentina)
Transmundo Home Video (THV) (Argentina) (video)
 

Special Effects
Effects Associates Ltd.


Other Companies
Clinton Recording Studios ... music recorded at

Locafete ... catering

Tirelli Costumi, Roma ... costumes



 

MUSIC:

Tom Jones Ouverture and Finale - Philidor

Le Sorciér - Philidor

Richard Coeur de Lion - Grétry

Prelude to Te Deum (Procession) - Charpentier

Minuet from Quartet in F, Op 50, No. 5 - Haydn

Divertimento for Winds in B, k. 240 - Mozart

Les Oiseaux Elégants - Couperin

L'Apothéose de Lulli - Couperin

Les Songes de Dardanus - Rameau

A Knight Riding Trough The Glade - Galuppi

Love, if You Will Come To Me - Galuppi

Pity The Fate - Philidor