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Gemma Bovery

  • 20142014
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  • 1h 39m
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Gemma Arterton in Gemma Bovery (2014)
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Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only ar... Read allMartin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to... Read allMartin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
IMDb RATING
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6.4K
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POPULARITY
9,992
4,480
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    • Director
      • Anne Fontaine
    • Writers
      • Pascal Bonitzer(screenplay)
      • Anne Fontaine(screenplay)
      • Posy Simmonds(novel)
    • Stars
      • Fabrice Luchini
      • Gemma Arterton
      • Jason Flemyng
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    • Director
      • Anne Fontaine
    • Writers
      • Pascal Bonitzer(screenplay)
      • Anne Fontaine(screenplay)
      • Posy Simmonds(novel)
    • Stars
      • Fabrice Luchini
      • Gemma Arterton
      • Jason Flemyng
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    • 20User reviews
    • 130Critic reviews
    • 58Metascore
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini
    • Martin Joubert
    Gemma Arterton
    Gemma Arterton
    • Gemma Bovery
    Jason Flemyng
    Jason Flemyng
    • Charlie Bovery
    Isabelle Candelier
    Isabelle Candelier
    • Valérie Joubert
    Niels Schneider
    Niels Schneider
    • Hervé de Bressigny
    Mel Raido
    Mel Raido
    • Patrick
    Elsa Zylberstein
    Elsa Zylberstein
    • Wizzy
    Pip Torrens
    Pip Torrens
    • Rankin
    Kacey Mottet Klein
    Kacey Mottet Klein
    • Julien Joubert
    • (as Kacey Mottet-Klein)
    Edith Scob
    Edith Scob
    • Madame de Bressigny
    Philippe Uchan
    Philippe Uchan
    • Docteur Rivière
    Pascale Arbillot
    Pascale Arbillot
    • La nouvelle voisine
    Marie-Bénédicte Roy
    Marie-Bénédicte Roy
    • Mme Rivière
    Christian Sinniger
    Christian Sinniger
    • Producteur de calva 1
    Pierre Alloggia
    Pierre Alloggia
    • Producteur de calva 2
    Patrice Le Mehauté
    Patrice Le Mehauté
    • Maître d'hôtel
    • (as Patrice Le Méhauté)
    Gaspard Beaucarne
    • Rémi
    Marianne Viville
    Marianne Viville
    • Pandora
    • Director
      • Anne Fontaine
    • Writers
      • Pascal Bonitzer(screenplay) (adaptation) (dialogue)
      • Anne Fontaine(screenplay) (adaptation) (dialogue)
      • Posy Simmonds(novel)
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    • Trivia
      While Valerie and Martin lie in bed arguing about the banality of Madame Bovary, Valerie is reading a biography of François Mauriac. Mauriac's most famous novel Thérèse Desqueyroux also deals with a bored, unhappy woman in the back province, but this one attempts to poison her husband with arsenic.
    • Goofs
      Martin believes that his next neighbor is Russian, but she's really from Rouen. When he meets Madame Mercier he's so surprised by her fluent French that he asks where she learned it. "At school like everyone else" she misleadingly replies, when in fact she would've learned her native tongue as a small child from her parents.
    • Quotes

      Martin Joubert: [on secretly observing Gemma seeing a local] This will only end badly

      Martin Joubert: There is a moment when life imitates art

    • Connections
      References Call of Duty (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Générique De Fin
      Music Composed and orchestrated by Bruno Coulais

      (p) 2014 Albertine Productions - Ciné-@ - Gaumont. Under Exclusive License to Milan Entertainment, Inc.

      © Milan Records

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    9/10
    A sexy update of Mme. Bovary with a mouth-watering Emma-Gemma
    REVIEW OF "GEMMA BOVERY" By Alex Deleon: Viewed at Hollywood Press screening, May 21, 2015.

    Martin Joubert, a semi-retired ex-Parisian literary Intellectual with a tremendous passion for the works of famous French novelist Gustave Flaubert, now runs a gourmet bakery in Normandy in the very village where Flaubert wrote his masterpiece Madame Bovary. During the summer an English couple takes up residence in a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals --Gemma and Charles Bovery -- almost identical to the characters in the book, but their everyday life seems to be following Flaubert's story uncannily, step by step, as Martin stalks Gemma's amorous trail about town more or less discretely, hoping to maybe have a little fling with her himself -- His wife, of course, taking a dim view of his excessive interest in this young beautiful bouncy English broad. Life in a spooky imitation of art? --or what! ~ In the novel the heroine ends up poisoned and dies an excruciating death, so where can all this lead...? -- Director Anne Fontaine, (born 1959 in Luxemburg) is an actress and writer who typically works on female centric pictures such as Audry Tautou starrer "Coco Before Chanel", 2009, but here she really hits her stride.

    Gemma Arterton (as the tantalizing reincarnation of Emma Bovary) is built along the lines of fellow English lady Jacqueline Bissett at her most buxom (The Deep, 1977), has much of the same charm, and was a real discovery. Fabrice Luchini, one of France's best alĺ around actors, was a taunting pleasure to watch every step of the way as Joubert, the local master baker and Bovary expert, who is enthralled by the very sexy much younger new neighbor from England. He is actually as much the leering center of the picture as sexpot Gemma, but familiarity with the original novel by Flaubert is more or less assumed. Without a fairly good knowledge of French much of the humor contained in the witty dialogue will be lost on American auds. I found myself to be the only member of the full house evening audience chuckling at many points in the picture.

    Nevertheless, the story itself is gripping, the cinematography gorgeous, and the erotic scenes strapping enough to make this work for higher I.Q. American audiences. I thought the ending was a little forced -- like the tacked on resolution at the end of a whodunnit murder mystery --but who cares when the rest of the picture was so delectable. The fragrance of the breads in the frequent boulangerie scenes were so appetising as to make anyone who has ever been to Paris (or Rouen!) want to get back there ASAP. Overall, a delightful way to spend an evening away from France. Alex, The morning after, still somewhat in cinematic thrall ...
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    • Release date
      • September 10, 2014 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site (Hungary)
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La ilusión de estar contigo
    • Filming locations
      • Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, France
    • Production companies
      • Albertine Productions
      • Ciné@
      • Gaumont
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €9,700,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $191,533
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,095
      • May 31, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,644,525
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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