‘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'.

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.

Brooding and moody from the outset, director Sophie Barthes’ “Madame Bovary” makes many changes to Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 debut novel, streamlining Emma Bovary’s tale of want and woe.

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.

As a character study, Madame Bovary is interesting to watch, but hard to feel. It is a curiously unemotional account of some rather basic emotions. However, the surface treatment of Vincente ...

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 ...

Mia Wasikowska excels here as Emma Bovary, 19th-century French literature’s most famous heroine. It’s another delicate performance from gifted Aussie actress Wasikowska (“Alice in… ...

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.

Madame Bovary, film review: A lacklustre adaptation of a passionate classic. Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Rhys Ifans star in this retelling of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel ...