Bel Ami
2012 · Movie · R · 102 min · ★ 5.3 · 35% critics
In 1890s Paris, a penniless former soldier claws his way into high society by landing a newspaper job and leveraging charm, ambition, and a string of affairs. As politics, media, and celebrity culture collide, relationships become transactions and desire turns into a tool for power and status.
Based on Bel-Ami
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-03-09
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Critic score
- 35/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.3/10 (539 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like steamy, cynical period dramas about social climbing and power games, with a polished look and strong supporting roles; Not for you if you need a likable lead or subtle romance like Silk or A Promise.
Pros: lavish period atmosphere; strong supporting performances; sharp social ambition | Cons: uneven lead performance; shallow character depth; repetitive affair structure
Themes
- adultery
- newspaper
- journalist
- based on novel or book
- camping
- unfaithfulness
- based on short story
- 19th century
Cast & crew
Robert Pattinson
as Georges Duroy
Uma Thurman
as Madeleine Forestier
Christina Ricci
as Clotilde de Marelle
Kristin Scott Thomas
as Virginie Walters
Colm Meaney
as Monsieur Rousset
Philip Glenister
as Charles Forestier
Holliday Grainger
as Suzanne Rousset
Natalia Tena
as Rachel the Prostitute
Anthony Higgins
as Comte de Vaudrec
James Lance
as François Laroche
Directed by Nick Ormerod, Declan Donnellan