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 ...

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Rarely has a circle ever been more irritating. The first thing you notice watching “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” a somewhat comic satire from China, is the round frame of its images — akin to looking ...

French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) studied law, but he was born to be a novelist. A diagnosis of epilepsy forced him to abandon his legal education, which conveniently gave him the ...

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, whose unhappiness as wife of a ...