He dabbles with the dark side once again, playing an amoral journalist who clambers up the social ladder in Belle Epoque Paris by sleeping with neglected wives and daughters of the men who wield power.
Christina Ricci as Clotilde in Bel Ami.
Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) harks from lowly stock and arrives in 1890s Paris with barely two francs to rub together.
He is taken under the wing of friend Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister), who lands the ambitious upstart a position on a newspaper and introduces him to the elegant drawing rooms where his wife Madeleine (Uma Thurman) and friends Virginie Walter (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci) hold court.
Dressed in a jacket paid out of Charles's deep pockets, Georges surmises that if he is to gain a foothold in polite society, he must seduce these women and exploit their influence.
So he hops from one bed to the next, securing opulent lodgings as his underhand scheme reaps rewards.
However, playing with emotions is a perilous business and on more than one occasion, he dismisses one lover in the nick of time before his next 'appointment'.
Matters are complicated when Madame Walter's daughter Suzanne (Holliday Grainger) makes it clear she would like to be plucked by Charles too.
Eventually the sordid truth must come out, and tavern wench Rachel (Natalia Tena) is just the woman to knock down Georges's tower of lies.
Bel Ami is a big tease that fails to deliver. However, Pattinson lacks sexual chemistry with any of his co-stars, making a mockery of his anti-hero's ability to reduce lovers to swooning, gibbering wrecks.
OUCH critics can be so damn mean!
Source http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Pattinson-turns-charm/story-15457080-detail/story.html
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