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Bel Ami
2012
· Movie
· 102 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Every rating
42–54
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 42, highest is IMDb on 54.
See the most agreed on films →In 1890s Paris, a young, impoverished ex-soldier arrives with immense ambition and no morals. He manipulates his way into the city's powerful and wealthy social circles by seducing a series of influential married women. Using these liaisons as stepping stones, he climbs the social ladder, exploiting the secrets and passions of the Parisian elite to gain the money, power, and status he desperately craves.
Details
- Directors
- Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
- Writer
- Rachel Bennette
- Based on
- Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
- Studio
- 19 Entertainment, Redwave Films, Protagonist Pictures, RAI
- Released
- 9 March 2012
- Country
- Italy, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $8.3M
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