Madame Bovary

one of the best renditions of this novel....by far the one with the best outfits, haha. There are about 4 version of this movie in existence, and this is one of my favorites...better even than the French one, which used to top the list. All the other movies focus more on the conversations and interactions of the characters, portray Emma as more shallow and selfish (which she is, as portrayed in the novel, in which she has a baby, unlike in this movie)....but this movie is hauntingly quiet and speaks much more through movements, scenes, and subtle details than the other ones. Also the music is hauntingly beautiful, this entire movie is like a work of art. Like moving through the stills of a painting. Most beautiful. Bravo!

The first time I encountered Gustav Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" was in a college lit class. I must have been eighteen or nineteen and my instructor's impassioned account of the doomed Emma Bovary fell on deaf ears. What do you expect from a kid with shoulder length hair and a face full of pimples who up to that point hadn't had a meaningful relationship with a member of the opposite sex who wasn't a blood relative? Now that I've bore the slings and arrows of life somewhat thirty-some years on I get where my teacher was coming from. I'll try my best to make this more of a critique and not a class assignment. For starters director-scenarist Sophie Barthes nails it. About the only artistic choice I would question would be beginning the film with Emma's ultimate fate and then recounting her downfall in flashback. That does not diminish Flaubert's observation that Emma was doomed by the lack of life choices French society offered her and the retribution that would smote her for going against the norm that was prescribed for married women. Mia Wasikowska is a revelation as Emma in subtly suggesting her character's internal changes. We may not agree with her choices but because of Wasikowska's nuanced performance we are consistently empathetic of Emma. The other compelling character of the piece is the venomous merchant played by Rhys Ifans who is the snake in the Garden of Eden personified dangling fineries in front of Emma that have as much to do with her downfall than her sexual indiscretions. The publication of "Madame Bovary" was quite the scandal in France in its time. Some 160 years later there's a certain prescience to the work almost as though Flaubert was anticipating the feminist movement. I don't know if that was Flaubert's intent but that gives us a little bit to chew on.

The latest in a long line of adaptations of the seminal novel by Gustave Flaubert, French-born director Sophie Barthes' (Cold Souls) English-language Madame Bovary is a compact and often gorgeous rendering, though definitely more of a cerebral experience than a red-hot story of sensuality and tragedy. In a rather curious misfire, Barthes opens her film at the end, with a poisoned Emma Bovary (Mia Wasikowska) racing through the forest, tightly clutching her side and then falling to the ground. It is an overly literal and revelatory way to begin a film already defined by its air of inevitable despair and doom. Then, however, an elegant and well-crafted depiction of tedious provincial life emerges, with several moments of genuine visual poetry, particularly ones contrasting Emma's increasing flamboyance with her pastoral environment and the way the disparity insulates and misguides her. Barthes completely foregrounds the title heroine (anti-heroine?), excising the Flaubert novel's early shared focus on Charles (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), her doting, but unimaginative husband. The film sprints behind her as she ends her authoritarian education at a convent, weds, and moves to live with her husband in an out-of-the-way hamlet very far from the Paris she dreams of. Wasikowska, of whom I am an enormous fan, is dynamic in the lead role. She exhibits sympathy for her character's plight, but is also unafraid to explore her sinister side: tendencies toward greed, self-destruction, and vanity which emerge as she pursues an empty and unrealistic type of fulfillment. (It is a bit of a shame this adaptation ignores the character of Berthe, Charles and Emma's daughter, denying the star the chance to play provocative scenes of domestic malaise further complicated by maternal discontent.) The other performances are largely capable, though no one comes close to eclipsing Wasikowska. Among the peripheral cast members, Rhys Ifans is best, stealing a few scenes as a slyly malevolent fashion merchant, Monsieur Lheureux, who praises and smiles as he spins inescapable webs of debt.

I'm giving this a 5 star review so it will be read! It happens to be one of the worst movies I've seen - It was so boring, I could not stay awake! This movie had the same ole, long, dragged out plot of a miserable Victorian woman, who, after spending her younger years in a convent, marries a physician. Bored and tempted by a younger man, she resists, then begins an affair that doesn't work out, so she meets the younger man at a recital. Another affair. I don't know about anyone else, but if you like Victorian romantic tragedies, try Wuthering Heights instead of wasting your money. I don't even think this Mia Wasikowska is much of an actress. The only thing this "movie" has going for it would be her wardrobe! I understand the precipice behind the movie, but surely a more exciting version could have been made. SAVE YOUR MONEY !!!

Loved it. Excellent acting, filming,directing costuming, location, production etc

Me encanto la película, pero por desgracias llego rota la caja del disco. Por fortuna el disco no presenta ningún daño. Parece ser que el sobre de burbuja no sirve muy bien.

Mia Wasikowska wow the girl is so good in everything I see of her. Ezra Miller you little horn dog you. Love everything about this movie. its a known fact when you want everything but you can’t seem to enjoy what you have. most definitely you loose it all then your life just drains from you.. Love It Most Definitely.. Widescreen 2.35:1 English 5.1 DTS-HD. Runtime 118 Min.

actrice sur mesure pour le role je n'ai ps lu le roman mais meme si le film va a l'essentiel ca suffit car ce qui est bien demontre c'est la decheance et la lachete des hommes

No especificaba el idioma y la compré pensándolo que vendría en español y no,asique la tuve que devolver.por favor especificar mejor