Bel Ami

Directed by Nick Ormerod and Declan Donnellan

With Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colm Meaney

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.