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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

best movie i've ever seen.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women. Bel Ami is for sure not the greatest film i've ever seen but i was surprised by the whole movie the performances were pretty good by Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci everyone did a great job and i liked the whole plot with Georges being basically a horrible person and using all those women just to get their money and i get it why he used the 2 of them but Ricci actually loved the guy and he treated her the same. Now do i think that this film deserves the ratings it gets? No but i don't blame the reviewers to be honest with you.

Talking to a friend recently about films she was keen on taking a look at,I got told about an interesting-sounding Costume Drama starring Robert Pattinson.With having recently been impressed by Pattinson's performance in the gritty Post-Apocalypse film The Rover,I decided that it was the perfect time to uncover The History of a Scoundrel.The plot:Paris 1890-Penniless since he left the battle field, soldier Georges Duroy is happy to run into his wealthy old friend Charles Forestier.Sad to see how poor his friend has become,Forestier decides to invite Duroy to stay with him and his wife Mrs. Madeleine Forestier.Taken by Duroy's charms,Madeleine introduces Duroy to her friends Clotilde de Marelle & Virginie Rousset.Learning that Charles now edits a newspaper,Duroy decides to take advantage of Madeleine and her pals attraction to him,as Duroy sets his sights on leaving his penniless life behind.View on the film:Whilst some of the dialogue sounds far too modern for late 1800s Paris, Rachel Bennette's adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's novel,does well at painting a cruel atmosphere,thanks to Bennette showing the desire for power to be the fuel behind all of Georges Duroy's relationships.Taking a slightly anthology style approach to each of Duroy's liaisons, Bennette is disappointingly unable to give the relationships any feeling of depth,due to Bennette giving the characters an outline which is only skin deep,which also causes Duroy's rise to power to feel rather abrupt,and not reaching the dark dramatic notes that the film desires.Transferring from the stage to the cinema, directors Nick Ormerod & Declan Donnellan superbly use deep rich blues to show the riches that Duroy is gathering for himself,which are haunted by a dark charcoal blacks,which are slowly draped over the film,as Duroy discovers the lies behind his riches.Along with the strong blues & blacks,the directors also give the movie an elegant sheen of light greens and yellows,which make the surprisingly graphic sex scenes sparkle.Surrounded by a dazzling array of girls, (all of whom look stunning,esp when naked!) Robert Pattinson (who makes sure that it is not all one-sided,by also appearing naked in the film) gives a very good performance as Georges Duroy,thanks to Pattinson showing Duroy's swagger to be one that hides a fear over returning to the bottom of the ladder.Giving Duroy a major bed/step up to power, Uma Thurman gives a wonderful performance as Madeleine Forestier,with Thurman bringing a dominating sass out of Forestier,as Duroy discovers that he has become a scoundrel of history.

"Bel Ami", set in the Paris of the 1880s, is centred upon a young man named Georges Duroy, the "bel ami", or "handsome friend", of the title. When we first meet him, Duroy is a former soldier, now employed as a badly-paid office clerk. A chance meeting with an old army comrade leads to an offer of job as a journalist on an influential newspaper and an entry into Parisian high society. Duroy now schemes to improve his social and financial status, a process which generally involves seducing as many society ladies, often the wives of his friends, as possible. I was surprised to note that the budget for the film was as low as €9 million, around £7 million and absolute peanuts by Hollywood standards. Certainly, it does not quite have the rich look of many "heritage cinema" productions, but it captures the look of late nineteenth century Paris quite adequately, and I do not think that the small budget was the reason why the film does not come off. The real reasons go deeper. The main one is the miscasting of Robert Pattinson in the main role. I know that, following his success in the "Twilight" series, Pattinson is regarded as something of a heartthrob, but he does not show much evidence of it here. He comes across as completely inert and lacking in the sexual charisma which one would expect such a successful Lothario to possess. To be fair to Pattinson, however, he does not get a lot of help from the script, which makes Duroy seem mean-spirited and cynical. It is hard to like a film with such a blackguard for its main character. Of the other actors the best is probably Christina Ricci as Clotilde de Marelle. Clotilde is a young, unhappily married woman who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with Duroy, who can never be faithful to her because he is, of course, passionately in love with himself. I have admired Kristin Scott Thomas in some of her earlier films but here, as Virginie Rousset, another of Duroy's conquests, she seemed too old for the part. Adaptations of nineteenth and early twentieth century novels, a genre which has become known as "heritage cinema", have played an important role in the cinema over the last few decades, particularly in Britain and France but also in other countries. The style has become particularly associated with the work of Merchant-Ivory, but there have been many other important works in the genre such as Schlesinger's "Far from the Madding Crowd", Losey's "The Go-Between", Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence" and Terence Davies's "The House of Mirth". Not all films made in this style, however, are of the same quality; at its worst heritage cinema can be beautiful but static and lifeless; Charles Sturridge's "Where Angels Fear to Tread", a piece of fake Ivory, being a case in point. With a plot that does not flow easily, an implausible storyline and a hero who comes across as completely charmless, even though he is supposed to use his charm as a weapon, "Bel Ami" is another example of heritage cinema at its worst. I have never read the novel by Guy de Maupassant, so cannot pass judgement on its merits as a work of literature, but I'm afraid to say that this adaptation did not exactly fill me with an immediate desire to rush out and buy a copy. 4/10

It's 1890 Paris. Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) is a poor former soldier returning from Algeria. He reconnects with fellow soldier Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister) who is married to socialite Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman). He is introduced to her friends Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci) and Virginie Rousset (Kristin Scott Thomas). Virginie's husband (Colm Meaney) is the editor of the newspaper La Vie Française where Georges gets a job publishing his war diaries in the paper.Pattinson is given so little to work with at the start and he does so little with it. The movie moves so quickly with him thrown in like catnip to these women. It's like the story is using a shortcut to get to a point which is utterly undeserved. The production is worthy. The actors involved are mostly first class. However Pattinson is underdeveloped. He is more like a child where a charming leading man should be. He is unsteady which I doubt those women would find sexy. He needs to be more confident or maybe darker and more mysterious. Everybody else is doing solid work. Other than some pretty production and some solid actors around Pattinson, there isn't much to recommend.