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Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,324 2010s romance movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Georges Duroy 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.
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes27%
Metacritic42/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
546 audience votes
Key crew
- Nick OrmerodDirector
- Declan DonnellanDirector
- Rachel BennetteScreenplay
- Lakshman Joseph De SaramOriginal Music Composer
- Rachel PortmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Robert PattinsonGeorges Duroy
- Uma ThurmanMadeleine Forestier
- Christina RicciClotilde de Marelle
- Kristin Scott ThomasVirginie Walters
- Colm MeaneyMonsieur Rousset
- Philip GlenisterCharles Forestier
- Holliday GraingerSuzanne Rousset
- Natalia TenaRachel the Prostitute
- Anthony HigginsComte de Vaudrec
- James LanceFrançois Laroche
- Thomas ArnoldLouis
- Timothy WalkerSolicitor
Stills
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Themes
adulterynewspaperjournalistbased on novel or bookcampingunfaithfulnessbased on short story19th century