While the most recent adaptation of Madame Bovary is no doubt pretty, director Sophie Barthes' take on the classic Flaubert novel doesn't quite feel like anything more than a bookish period piece. The ...
It would seem unlikely that a story about a 19th century young French woman escaping her marriage and tedious provincial life by embarking on scandalous affairs would have much appeal to 21st century ...
As a character study, Madame Bovary is interesting to watch, but hard to feel. It is a curiously unemotional account of some rather basic emotions. However, the surface treatment of Vincente ...
WHAT’S A woman to do? Married to a man she’s never met, ensconced in a provincial French home and bored beyond sanity, she might get herself into a heap of trouble. So goes the story of anti-heroine, ...
Mia Wasikowska stars in the latest adaptation of the classic French novel By Todd McCarthy Madame Bovary Mia Wasikowska - H 2013 Barthes, whose promising previous feature, Cold Souls, debuted at ...
The 11 running of the Asian Film Awards was a strong night for South Korean films. But Chinese contemporary drama “I Am Not Madame Bovary” snatched the best film award and the best actress prize.