Bel Ami

Ricci plays Clotilde de Marelle, an influential young woman, in this drama directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod from the novel by Guy de Maupassant. Madame de Marelle has an affair with Georges du Roy, a man intent on climbing the social ladder. Co-starring Robert Pattison, Kristin Scott, and Uma Thurman.

I liked the idea of playing someone who you get the impression is an inherently happy person, who has never really known a day of angst or unhappiness in her life, but then as an audience we get to see her experience her first heart ache, her dealings with pain and anguish on screen and throughout the film.