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Gemma Bovery
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In this vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of FIaubert's Iiterary classic Madame Bovary, Iife imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband CharIes (Jason Flemyng) move to a charming ramshackle old farmhouse in the very same Norman vilIage where the noveI was written a century earlier. Their weIcoming neighbor, Iocal baker and FIaubert expert Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) becomes entranced with Gemma and sets out to be her guide and mentor to her new surroundings. It doesn't take Iong before he is drawing paralIeIs between the Iiterary and reaI Iife woman, whiIe he insinuates himself into her Iife.
As reality sets in on the fantasy of rural French domesticity, the Boverys' marriage begins to fray and Gemma finds herself at loose ends. She soon catches the eye of a handsome young playboy and when her magnetic ex suddenIy reappears, she finds herself at a crossroads and seems to be fulfilling Joubert's worst fears that her destiny is linked to that of FIaubert's doomed heroine. Director Anne Fontaine's (Coco Before Chanel) cIever adaptation of Posy Simmonds' graphic noveI Gemma Bovery is at once a cheeky literary mash-up, a sensuous romance, a witty feminist commentary and a heady celebration of French provincial Iife. |
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