Well, the movie looks lush anyway. These are new stills from the period drama Bel Ami, Robert Pattinson’s latest post-Twilight gig. RPatz, as he’s known to friends and admirers, stars as Georges Duroy, a man of modest means who basically sleeps his way through Parisian high-society during the period known as La Belle Epoque (the age so wistfully described by Marion Cotilliard in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.) The women in question are Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci, so hopefully this one will draw a more mature audience than his sparkly vampire role. Although, who am I kidding? Those emo-vamp flicks didn’t make bazillions from the babysitting cash of tweens alone. Therefore, this one has a huge built-in audience. IMHO. The set design and the costumes are enough to get me into the theater.

In any case, knowing the cash cow they’ve got in their picture, the producers of Bel Ami have released some gorgeous new stills of Patz and his bedroom eyes either making out, about to make out, post-make out and finally getting hitched, with a lucky woman. Oh and then there’s one with who I can only assume to be the director. (Actually the movie has two credited directors, Nick Oremerod and Declan Donnellan. I have no idea which of the two that is.) I just threw that in there because it was part of the package. I’m sure it will appeal to someone. (I don’t judge) Actually I’m not one of those that swoons at the mention of this guy but I can enable with the best of ‘em.  Enjoy the pics girls (or whoever…)

Bel Ami is based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant and has been filmed seven times before, dating all the way back to 1919 (although four of those were for French television.) Since this movie STILL has no release dates, I’m thinking we can probably look forward to more wee gifties like this in the hopes that they will drum up some enthusiasm for the film. Just a theory.

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