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I Am Not Madame Bovary

2016

Feng Xiaogang

Fan Bingbing, Da Peng, Fan Wei, Guo Tao ...

6.2

948

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

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A caustic, overlong satire whose coy visual effects overpower the story and characters."	NEU
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"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."	NEU
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"[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)"	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"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"	NEG
United Kingdom	Steve Rose The Guardian	"[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)"	POS
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"Fan Bingbing is a tempest (...) [It] has a sublime visual elegance, telling its story much of the time with wondrous pictorial effects"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"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"	NEU

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