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Bel Ami (2012) (DVD)

IMDB Rating: 5.6
Released: May 4, 2012
Rating: R
Genres: Drama,
Sub Genres:
Running Time: 102 minutes
AKA: Bel Ami – Storia di un seduttore
Country: USA
Language: English
IMDB Link: Bel Ami on IMDB
Official Site: Official Site
Views: 10,000

There are a mountain of issues with Declan Donnellan and Nick Omerod’s adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel Ami, which stars Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas. A mixture of weak screenplay, dreadful direction and poor performances add up to what is undoubtedly some of the disappointing films of this year’s Berlinale – you may snort, however for all the wrong reasons.

Based on the 1885 Guy de Maupassant novel of the identical, Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson), a younger man from moderately humble peasant beginnings who uses the Watch Bel Ami Online Free HD connections and favour of some of the wealthiest and most influential lady in Nineties Paris, to maneuver up the up the class ladder, and higher his place in society.

A lucky break sees Georges invited to a dinner party hosted by newspaper editor Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister). At this party he meets three woman who will change his life in the most unimaginable ways. Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci) is a bored, wealthy married lady with whom George starts an affair; Madeleine (Uma Thurman) is the extremely clever spouse of Charles Forestier, who helps Georges safe a job on the newspaper; while Madame Rousset (Kristin Scott Thomas) is a woman with more connections and more affect on the political scene than most men may ever dream of. Georges makes use of these woman and their connections to clamber his strategy to the top of Parisian society.

The movie-makers have completed a implausible job re-creating the excessive society of Nineties Paris. From the attractive robes, to the tastefully adorned homes, and the highest hats – this can be a absolutely-realised world which the viewers is easily drawn into. The film has been shot brilliantly by Stefano Falivene, who brings the fastidiously created world alive. In particular, light (especially candlelight) is used successfully to assist set the temper and highlight the beauty of the setting.

Most irksome is the truth that the material for an awesome movie is current, but the themes Watch Bel Ami Online Free HD are by no means realised or (equally as dangerous) blatantly tossed in as an aside. Certainly one of Bel Ami most potentially interesting themes – that of sexual equality – is simply hinted at, very like the themes of class division and the power of journalism over governments. Sadly, a lot of the movie is as a substitute given over to turning Pattinson right into a Don Juan-esque ‘serial shagger’ quite than a Watch Bel Ami Online Free HD vibrant, three dimensional lead.

Bel Ami is a rare movie inasmuch as there may be nearly nothing to be loved about it, save for the unintended humour that such an appalling effort can provoke in its audience – to be averted in any respect costs.

Total Bel Ami is an entertaining look into Eighteen Nineties Parisian society and what it takes to make it within the higher echelons of that world. Strong performances from an excellent forged and a fantastically constructed world, make for a largely gratifying film.

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