Bel Ami

When a handsome, opportunistic, charismatic, greedy French railway clerk (Robert Pattinson) finds himself over his head after he is offered a job as a journalist by a supportive Paris newspaper editor (Philip Glenister) and attracted to his smart, free-spirited, politically-savvy wife (Uma Thurman) in 1890 in this rather dull, cliché-driven, 102-minute period piece, which is adapted from Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel and punctuated with beautiful costumes and a wonderful musical score, he quickly finds himself rising in the influential circles as he proceeds to attract the attention of a lonely, married woman (Christina Ricci) with a young daughter and the smitten wife (Kristen Scott Thomas) of the newspaper publisher (Colm Meaney) and their teenage daughter (Holliday Grainger).
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