It took
Robert Pattinson three and a half movies to getting around to bedding his lady love as Edward Cullen in
The Twilight Saga (oh, um, spoilers), but as the lead of
Declan Donnellan and
Nick Ormerod's
Bel Ami, Pattinson more than makes up for lost time. Based on a novel by
Guy de Maupassant, the drama follows a poor young man who climbs the ranks of 1890s Parisian society by calculatedly seducing its wealthiest and most ...