The Trailer For BEL AMI With The Seducer, Robert Pattinson

Twilight star, Robert Pattinson (Water For Elephants, COSMOPOLIS) keeps seducing ever girl any chance he gets, doesn’t he. At least on the big screen he does. His character’s charm always gets his way. Via ThePlaylist, after the jump check out the trailer for Pattinson’s new film, BEL AMI adaptation co-starring Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Christina Ricci..

Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy (Pattinson), who 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.

Based on  the short story by author Guy de Maupassant
The adaptation is the directorial debut of London theater director Declan Donnellan.

The official synopsis of the book is about the young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity”