Madame Bovary has a rich screen history, including movie versions by such auteurs as Jean Renoir, Vincente Minnelli and Claude Chabrol, who brought “Madame Bovary” to the silver screen.

Interpreting the master wordsmith’s Madame Bovary for cinema is fraught with challenges. For starters, heroine Emma’s dalliances are rooted in literary fantasy: How can you show that on film?

‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’: Film Review | TIFF 2016. Chinese director Feng Xiaogang reteams with star Fan Bingbing in the social satire 'I Am Madame Bovary'.

Like “The Great Gatsby,” Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” may be one of those novels that seems ready-made for the movies yet is unfilmable.

Every time another one of these somber adaptations of 19th-century novels comes around, I know precisely what I'm in for. And yet I continue to ...

In all, it's a perfectly fine film — comfortable, competent, attractive, an amiable enough matinee. But like Emma, though our basic needs are met, we're left wanting far more than our lot.

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Toronto Film Review: Fan Bingbing in ‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’ A peasant woman with a grievance drags it all the way up the ladder of bureaucracy in Feng Xiaogang's social satire.