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I Am Not Madame Bovary

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Original title

I Am Not Madame Bovaryaka

AKA

Wo bu shi Pan Jinlian

Year

2016

Running time

133 min.

Country

China

China

Director

Screenwriter

Liu Zhenyun. Novel: Liu Zhenyun

Music

Wei Du

Cinematography

Luo Pan

Cast

Fan Bingbing, Da Peng, Fan Wei, Guo Tao, Calvin Li, Zhang Yi, Liu Hua, Zhang Jiayi, Yu Hewei, Zhao Lixin, Feng Xiaogang

Producer

Sparkle Roll Media, Huayi Brothers

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.

Rankings Position

#113 Best Chinese Movies of all time

Awards: 2016: San Sebastian: Best Film & Actress (Fan Bingbing)

2016: Toronto Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award ("Special Presentations")

Critics' reviews

"A caustic, overlong satire whose coy visual effects overpower the story and characters."

Deborah Young: The Hollywood Reporter
"This sly comic parable, eccentrically tricked out in reductive screen formats (...) could also beguile non-Chinese audiences beyond the fest circuit with its often sublime ridiculousness."

Dennis Harvey: Variety
"[It] clocks in at almost two and a half hours, a pretty brutal length for a story so repetitive (...) It's a pleasure to look at the screen and to watch the artistry of the entire creative team (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Sheila O'Malley: rogerebert.com
"There’s some intriguing social commentary (...) [but it] requires a perhaps unusual amount of patience, or even indulgence (...) The whole thing is a little cumbersome. So is the movie’s visual mode"

Glenn Kenny: The New York Times
"Uneven (...) Feng, for some reason, shoots the entire movie in bizarrely constricted aspect ratios (...) [which] it’s mostly just a distraction that leaves roughly half of the frame unused"

Mike D'Angelo: AV Club
"[A] smart satire (...) Fan Bingbing is on fine form as an obstinate divorcee-to-be in a singular film that is ultimately worth the effort it requires (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Steve Rose: The Guardian
"Fan Bingbing is a tempest (...) [It] has a sublime visual elegance, telling its story much of the time with wondrous pictorial effects"

David D'Arcy: Screendaily

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