"Bel Ami" Review by Herald Scotland
THEATRE luminaries Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod make their feature film debut with this, no surprise, rather theatrical adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant novel.
The major selling points are the stars, especially Twilight's Robert Pattinson acting moodily in period costume as Georges Duroy, a poor boy making his ambitious way with the ladies of fin-de-siecle Paris. Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristen Scott Thomas are among the madames in question.
Scott Thomas is the best of the gang, with her character Virginie given to much swooning and faffing in the marsh. Though the film creaks badly at times and succumbs to staginess at the drop of a lace hanky, everything at least looks the part.
Source => Herald Scotland / Via => Spunk Ransom
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