2012 · romance · drama · political
Bel Ami
Directed by Nick Ormerod, Declan Donnellan1h 42m2012
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.
Our read: Bel Ami (2012) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama · political entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- measured
- gentle
- bleak
- cold
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