American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
“我带你回归写作，回归你自己，也许，有一天你会感激我的！”
如果读过原著，可能就看不下去。主要展现了19世纪巴黎新闻业的虚假以及人不可能实现阶级跨越。最感动的是贵族夫人从始至终对Lucien的欣赏与爱慕。
m2259：他成为了别人的小说。卡洛琳是个好女人。
『Je pense à ceux qui doivent en eux trouver quelque chose après le désenchantement.』
哎，虚幻的繁华伸手可得，缺一碰就碎…等到繁华落尽时，那些最虚伪最狡猾的人被留下…
我觉得很久没看到扎扎实实拍好名著的电影了，当然一部分也是归功于巴尔扎克的剧本
了不起的巴尔扎克，关于新闻的讽刺太应景了。本片也精心制作，不辜负名著。
流量的密码，资本的角逐，阶级的鸿沟，人生的幻灭。所以做人，如果没有强大的背景，是不能既要，又要，还要的……
毕竟是名著，人物、剧情、场面都要丰满许多。
总结来说，这是一部值得肯定的优秀的影视作品，学院式，古典主义，但可看程度也很高，值得观看。
好的故事，今时今日依然如是，可见其经典，人类进步真缓慢。男女主的表演差了些，其它完成中规中矩。
十分强大的剧本蓝本。
反面版本的Bel ami，Dolan的旁白太好听了，看完又让人相信爱情了呜呜。
虽然很华丽，但拍得毫无新意，一部小说改编的电影还是需要旁白和对白推进故事的话，那我为什么不去看原作呢？
7.5吧，很多情节放在如今也毫不违和，不愧是巴尔扎克。时长原因，虽然有趣但还是看到疲倦。
不知天高地厚的年轻人闯巴黎，旁白很多，没有吸引人的演员，服装有质感。看了45分钟。
2个多小时的还原原著，OST都是非常耳熟能详的巴洛克曲子，上流社会和理想幻灭，来源于名利的虚无主义。很好笑的是，在他们编写假新闻搞来猴子的时候，配乐全是巴洛克优雅的OST，很好笑了。服化道max，巴尔扎克还是很心软哇
金句频出，挖苦四起，时评弹幕比主线情节精彩系列。
3.5 本杰明和多兰演得都不太行是怎么拿奖提名的
得亏有文本的厚度。借古讽今了，一路看下来，满腔的怒火。一个最天真的女性就这么死了。
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