Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 7, 2012
Price: DVD $22.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1) gets rid of his sparkly skin and vampire teeth for the 2012 period movie Bel Ami.
Based on the classic novel by Guy de Maupassant, the drama film stars Pattinson as penniless ex-soldier Georges Duroy, who uses the wealthiest and most influential women in turn of the century Paris to rise in power. In his lustful quest, he seduces Madame de Marelle (Christina Ricci, TV’s Pan Am), marries Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction), the wife of a former comrade, and conquers Madame Walter (Kristen Scott Thomas, Sarah’s Key).
Rated R, Bel Ami was only screened in a limited number of theaters, so the DVD release gives the movie its biggest audience.
Critics didn’t think much of the film, which is the first feature directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod and written by Rachel Bennette.
But it wasn’t the newcomers behind the camera who were criticized by critics. They mostly had a problem with Pattinson’s performance. Newsday‘s John Anderson said, “Pattinson’s passion is bloodless, his rakish George Duroy a font of undelivered potential.”
The DVD has only one special feature: a behind-the-scenes featurette.
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