All of these are new -- or mostly new -- to me. Apologies if they've been posted before but I missed them.
I know not everyone will agree, but I think Rob is showing a remarkable amount of range and all-around growth as an actor. Plus it doesn't hurt that I can't take my eyes off him whenever he's on the screen, but that's another matter....;)
Some lovely "non-fandom" comments from Alt Film Guide:
Set in a church, in the first scene Pattinson's ambitious ex-soldier Georges Duroy plays (very determinedly) a game of seduction with Older Woman Kristin Scott Thomas. In the second, Pattinson convincingly plays a drunk Duroy in a cabaret. That's when he runs into the obnoxious publisher Charles Forestier, who will inadvertently assist Duroy in his ascent in Parisian society.
The third scene is set at the Forrestier dinner table. The issue of class is all too apparent — Duroy doesn't know which knife to use — and so are the various seduction games despite all the surface talk about life in the desert and French colonial politics. Even though Pattinson, Christina Ricci, and Uma Thurman are perfectly fine — Pattinson's facial expressions, a mix of shyness and self-assertion, are particularly impressive — the scene-stealer here is Scott Thomas: "I was told that the [desert] sands … sing?"
In the fourth scene, Duroy performs a different sort of seduction, as a little girl falls for her playful "bel ami." The brief follow-up scene features Pattinson/Duroy and his conquest Ricci/Clotilde de Marelle in his dingy apartment.
Though a low-budget production, Bel Ami — as its trailer (and even its poster) promised — is gorgeous to look at.
So...? What say you all?