Unfortunately we didn’t especially love the movie and you can see our review of it here. If you’ve seen the film, please let us know what you thought of it in the comments section below.
Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy (Pattinson), who 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.
Great film, I really can’t understand why it is getting such a slating, has anybody actually read the book? I have and I think everyone is really good in their respective roles,Philip Glennister is great as the dying Fourestire and Robert PAttinson is fantastic as the down at heel soldier with ambition and burning hate for those who look down on him as a usurper in their world, if you read the book you know that a lot of the action takes place in his head, the wishing and planning etc, so a lot of the feeling has to be conveyed with facial expression and for some reason this doesn’t seem to suit the critics, still never mind the more discerning of us recognise the facts. The ladies were also excellent and you could really feel for them,although they richly deserved what they got since they were equally scheming in lots of ways. Very interesting insight in to human behaviour