![]() ![]() Barthes and her co-writer Felipe Marino feel this Emma Bovary - and they make sure we do, too. At least for its first half, this is a textured, haunted, remarkably empathetic film. shores this month, hot on the heels of Anne Fontaine’s well-acted, but ultimately thin modernization Gemma Bovery, maybe adds to the been-there, done-that quality.) But look closely and you may see that this madame is alive in all sorts of ways. ![]() ![]() (That this is the second Madame Bovary adaptation to open on U.S. On its surface, Sophie Barthes’s film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes at us like a musty blast of Quality - what the French New Wave critics once called “ le cinema du papa.” An immaculate period adaptation seemingly lacking any ironic distance or newfangled reinvention, this feels at first like the kind of Bovary you can lose yourself in - all petticoats and proprieties. ![]()
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