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Madame Bovary
Bored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.
22 July 1967, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
30 September 1992, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
6 June 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
20 October 1976, Leeds, England, UK
3 November 1989, Heywood, Lancashire, England, UK
13 April 1967, Gillingham, Kent, England, UK
June 12, 2015
The Normandy locations are evocative, but director Sophie Barthes compresses Emma's multiyear rise and fall into what seems like a month or so.
July 03, 2015
Barthes feels the need to improve on Flaubert, adding and dropping scenes and inventing social metaphors - mainly spiderwebs and corsets.
May 20, 2016
A faithful adaptation of the mythical novel that stands out thanks to it's great production values. [Full review in Spanish]
June 15, 2015
This umpteenth adaptation of Flaubert's classic novel at least chooses its Emma wisely ...
May 20, 2016
By not getting too fancy, Sophie Barthes scores one of the better adaptations with her slightly simplified but reasonably faithful Madame Bovary.
June 01, 2016
Incapable of going deeper in its story, the film is a very superficial take on the material. [Full review in Spanish]
May 17, 2016
Mia Wasikowska shows that there is no period character that can resist her. [Full review in Spanish]
June 13, 2015
For all the talk of romance, this is a Madame Bovary that's grounded in the real - in the sounds and colors of Emma's world, in its material limitations and splendors.
May 05, 2016
It is certainly beautiful... But the story, which follows a remorseless arc, is reduced to episodes that amount to a narrative shorthand and many characters - notably Giamatti's Homais - are hopelessly underwritten.
May 25, 2016
Mia Wasikowska isn't that bad, but her character lacks all the necessary layers to make us understand her erratic behaviour. [Full review in Spanish]
June 18, 2015
With her thousand-mile frown, Mia Wasikowska was born to play Victorian heroines, though she's a little too intelligent and self-aware for Flaubert's Emma Bovary.
