Gemma Bovery



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“A deeply charming and affecting reverie. – Film Journal International
“An engagingly lush Gallic romantic-drama. – Mark Adams, Screen International

In this vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of Flaubert’s literary classic, Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty, Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton), and her furniture restorer husband, Charles (Jason Flemyng), move to a charming ramshackle old farmhouse in the very same Norman village where the novel was written a century earlier. Their welcoming neighbor, local baker and Flaubert expert Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), becomes entranced with Gemma and sets out to be her guide and mentor to her new surroundings. It doesn’t take long before he is drawing parallels between the literary and real life woman while he insinuates himself into her life. Director Anne Fontaine’s (COCO BEFORE CHANEL) clever adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel, Gemma Bovery is at once a cheeky literary mash-up, a sensuous romance, a witty feminist commentary, and a heady celebration of French provincial life.

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99Rated R
Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Distributor Music Box Films
in French and English with English subtitles

Showing Today at the Theater Fri, Mar 29

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