{"id":154070,"date":"2015-07-30T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=154070"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:58:47","slug":"madame-bovary-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/07\/30\/madame-bovary-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Bovary Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madame Bovary<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Alchemy<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya.<\/strong>
\nGrade: B<\/strong>
\nDirector: Sophie Barthes<\/strong>
\nScreenwriter: Felipe Marino, Sophie Barthes, based on Gustave Flaubert\u2019s novel<\/strong>
\nCast: Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Laura Carmichael, Olivier Gourmet, Paul Giamatti<\/strong>
\nRelease date: DVD August 4, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madame Bovary have been scripted into films on the big screen many times, starting with the 1932 Albert Ray\u2019s version, which was followed by 1949 Vincente Minneli\u2019s, 1969 Hans Schott Schobinger\u2019s, 1991 Claude Chabrol and the latest of 2014 Sophie Barthes\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Barthes took some liberties with Flaubert\u2019s novel, by introducing us to Emma (Mia Wasikowska), a pig-farmer\u2019s daughter completing her studies at a French convent in Normandy, France, in the mid-1880s. She gets to wed Charles Bovary (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), a second-rate country doctor, after an arranged marriage which takes place in the local church. Bored with Charles Emma finds solace by spending extravagantly on expensive dresses and furniture, while dealing \u201con-credit\u201d with Monsieur Lheureux (Rhys Ifans). She also develops an interest in extra-marital liasons with Leon Dupuis (Ezra Miller) and a Marquis (Logan Marshall-Green).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mia Wasikowska is too young for the role of Emma Bovary, walking around with an unexplained perpetual facial frown. One cannot help but visualize, Isabelle Huppert in her late thirties during the 1991 version. Rhys Ifans presents a convincing snake-oil merchant as Monsieur Lheureux; Henry Lloyd-Hughes is serviceable as Charles Bovary and Paul Giamatti is reliable as the pharmacist, Monsieur Homais.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director of photography Andrij Parekh takes advantage of the fabulous autumnal Normandy country side, while Christian Gasc and Valerie Ranchoux present us Emma in multiple costumes that grow more lavish by the hour.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final scene of Madame Bovary is lifeless, directed in a sterile manner. Emma takes medicine from her husband\u2019s office and collapses in the forest. I could not help but recall Isabel Huppert\u2019s last scene, swallowing rat poison, almost chocking in the process, her mouth covered with white powder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rated R. 118 minutes. \u00a9 Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story: B-<\/strong>
\nActing: B<\/strong>
\nTechnical: B+<\/strong>
\nOverall: B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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