Robert Pattinson’s first post-Twilight venture—the period drama Bel Ami—has been attracting a fair share of attention in anticipation of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month. If RPattz wanted to get as far away as possible from his squeaky-clean teen heartthrob persona, playing a 19th-century social-climbing scoundrel who sleeps his way up the ranks of Parisian high society just about did it.

Declan Donnellan, the film’s co-director, described Pattinson’s anti-hero Georges Duroy: It’s about a very beautiful cut-throat young man who discovers he has got one commodity to sell. He seduces powerful women high up the tree of French society, mostly connected with the newspaper industry.
He uses sex and their huge attraction for him to get to the top of the pile. It’s an unremitting world and in the end he gets the lot. So there are no consequences for him.

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