annedevon

So escuted to see this. I’ve watched 2 Hollywood film versions, 1 Chinese version with Jang Dong-Gun and Jiang JZhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung, and an earlier Korean version, Untold Scandal, with Bae Yong Joon and Jeon Doyeon. The story is so powerful which goes beyond your usual romantic melodrama. The original French novel was very much avant-garde in how it dealt with sex Hal politics, female and male sexualities vying for power and control over each other and over the younger romantic pair, and their obsessive desires for love that wants to control the desired lover.