Madame Bovary (2014)

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.

Director:

Sophie Barthes

Writers:

Felipe Marino (screenplay by), Sophie Barthes (screenplay by)

Stars:

Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mia Wasikowska	...	Emma Bovary
Rhys Ifans	...	Monsieur Lheureux
Ezra Miller	...	Léon Dupuis
Logan Marshall-Green	...	Marquis d'Andervilliers
Henry Lloyd-Hughes	...	Charles Bovary
Laura Carmichael	...	Henriette
Olivier Gourmet	...	Monsieur Rouault
Paul Giamatti	...	Monsieur Homais
Luke Tittensor	...	Hippolyte
Richard Cordery	...	Abbé Bournisien
Wendy Nottingham	...	Madame Homais
Simon Muller	...	Monsieur Dubocage
Simon Paisley Day	...	Bailiff
Morfydd Clark	...	Camille
Roméo Fidanza	...	Recital Singer (as Romeo Fidanza)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

two word title | title directed by female | written by director | female protagonist | marriage problems | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some sexuality/nudity

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Germany Belgium USA

Language:

English French Latin German

Release Date:

12 June 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Pani Bovary

Filming Locations:

Saint-Germain-de-la-Coudre, Orne, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

A Company Filmproduktionsgesellschaft, Aden Film, Aleph Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

118 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is actress Mia Wasikowska's 5th period drama set in the 19th century.

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Quotes

Emma Bovary: I realized that before getting married I was contemplating my coming life like a child. In a theater, um... sitting there in high spirits, and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It was a blessing in my early youth that I did not know what was really going to happen. When I look back now, it seems that I was like an innocent prisoner, condemned not to death, but to life, and as-yet unconscious of what the sentence meant. And the longer I live, the more clearly I feel that on a whole, life's ...

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Connections

Remake of Madame Bovary (1953)

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Soundtracks

The Hunt
(uncredited)
by Evgueni Galperine & Sacha Galperine

User Reviews

Visually gorgeous, otherwise disappointing

Mia Wasikowska as Emma Bovary is one of the worst casting decisions I've ever seen. I read the book quite a while ago but I remember picturing her as pretty, delicate, vivacious, fun-loving, lively, romantic, naive and gullible. Wasikowska projects none of these qualities. Emma is supposed to transform into a depressed, frustrated, shadow of her former self, dulled by her uneventful country life with a dull husband she doesn't love before turning to other men and recklessly spending money she doesn't have to bring some excitement into her life.

In the movie she seems to meet her first male distraction the day after her wedding and then falls in love with the marquis simply by looking at him, demanding he rescue her from her disappointing life and sweep her off to a high society life almost immediately. Incidentally, the first time they see each other is during a stag hunt, when Emma rides astride her horse - surely not in rural France during the mid-18th century?

Emma seems to attract men like flies, although I can't see anything in Wasikowska's Emma that would attract any man.

And what's going on with the accent mash up?! Most of the characters, including Emma, sound American, but her father has a French accent, others sound English and Rhys Ifans... I don't know what is going on there but sometimes he sounds slightly French, sometimes purely French and at other times completely English.

The most frustrating thing about this film is that there is no sense of time passing. Everything seems to happen within a couple of weeks.

Visually though, it is beautiful and there are some excellent moments and scenes. Watch it for the gorgeous costumes and setting if not the actors or the plot!