Bel Ami

“Temptation. Seduction. Obsession.”

What lets a penniless man with no connections walk into the salons of 1890s Paris and come out rich? Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) starts in a roach-ridden garret, with only his looks and a talent for charming the wives of powerful men, among them Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman). Nick Ormerod and Declan Donnellan, making their first film, stage the city as a place where politics, newspapers and sex all trade in the same currency.