RomanceDrama

Bel Ami

- Temptation. Seduction. Obsession.

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

Release Date : 2012-03-09

Language :CzechEnglishFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 19 EntertainmentRedwave FilmsProtagonist PicturesRAI

Production Country : ItalyUnited Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Georges Duroy

Original Name : Robert Pattinson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Madeleine Forestier

Original Name : Uma Thurman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Clotilde de Marelle

Original Name : Christina Ricci

Gender : Female

Character Name : Virginie Walters

Original Name : Kristin Scott Thomas

Gender : Female

Character Name : Monsieur Rousset

Original Name : Colm Meaney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charles Forestier

Original Name : Philip Glenister

Gender : Male

Character Name : Suzanne Rousset

Original Name : Holliday Grainger

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rachel the Prostitute

Original Name : Natalia Tena

Gender : Female

Character Name : Comte de Vaudrec

Original Name : Anthony Higgins

Gender : Male

Character Name : François Laroche

Original Name : James Lance

Gender : Male

Character Name : Louis

Original Name : Thomas Arnold

Gender : Male

Character Name : Solicitor

Original Name : Timothy Walker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul the Butler

Original Name : Pip Torrens

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Commisioner

Original Name : Christopher Fulford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nanny

Original Name : Amy Marston

Gender : Female

Character Name : Laurine de Marelle

Original Name : Eloise Webb

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bishop

Original Name : Frank Dunne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Journalist (uncredited)

Original Name : Christos Lawton

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-05-24

Now I don't know about you, but I always thought that Freddie Stroma ("Cormac") from the "Half Blood Prince" (2009) was the hottest eye-candy to befriend "Harry Potter" so I never really got all the fuss about the pallid and relatively charm-free Robert Pattison as he became an Hollywood star. In this, admittedly stylish looking film, he is a poverty stricken would-be Lothario who manages to get himself a job on the local "La Vie Française" newspaper thanks to the creative help of "Mme. Forestiere" (Uma Thurman) and her husband who edits the thing. Success goes to his head a bit and soon he is sleeping his way through Paris society caring nothing for the women - notably "Mme. Rousset" (easily the best performance of the film from Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) and the vulnerable and loving "Clothilde" (Christina Ricci). Gradually his reputation starts to impede his flexibility, his erstwhile colleagues sicken of him and his luck starts to change? Is he going to end up on an absinthe-soaked floor somewhere, or has he now the guile to survive - thrive, even? It's interesting, I suppose, to tell a story from the perspective of a man who sleeps his way to the top - but this one is really rather one-dimensional. Pattison is no great shakes an an actor, his performance is completely devoid of charisma and there is very little chemistry here - on any level - to sustain the rather repetitive and depressing thread of their stories. They are all rather unpleasant, duplicitous, individuals who would cheat as easily as breathe. Holliday Grainger's entry onto the scene merely serves to speed it even more rapidly on the skids from which it just never really recovers. This is just poor, sorry.