Bel Ami

The dizzying recitals of greed, lust and betrayal that occur throughout directors Declan Donnelan’s and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami are exhausted by the time one reaches the final scene. Based on Guy de Maupassant’s beloved French novel, Bel Ami is set in 1890s France within a social circle of wealthy newspaper journalists. The novel, which was released in the early 1900s, is a scandalous page-turner packed with story and fleshed-out character plot lines. In sum: the opposite of what emerges from its screen adaption....  read more