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Madame Bovary

2014

Sophie Barthes

Mia Wasikowska, Ezra Miller, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans ...

5.3

1,297

Drama The beautiful wife of a small-town doctor engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Emma Bovary dies in the end, of course, but in this new film version she never even comes to life (...) Sophie Barthes' (...) adaptation has the ever-watchable Mia Wasikowska but very little else going for it, artistically or commercially."	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Measured and absorbing rather than deeply compelling or vital, this latest adaptation of [the] novel makes a strong effort to capture the stiflingly provincial world that Flaubert was able to describe in such precise, painstaking detail on the page."	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez IndieWire	"An attractively crafted movie that tries to insinuate disillusionment (...) [It] feels more precise and calculated, misplacing a vitality that it desperately needs. [It delivers] an uninspired narrative and disengaged performances."	NEU
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Realistic and refined, but uneven and disappointing (...) the approach to this Madame Bovary is academic, but the movie suffers from too much respect and not enough passion (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It is not hard to believe that Ms. Wasikowska is Madame Bovary - she is at once serious and shallow, willful and indecisive, powerful and helpless - but this "Madame Bovary" is unfortunately not quite itself"	NEU

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