Gemma Bovery (2014)
Country: FR/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier
Synopsis:
A baker of a Normandy village looks on helplessly, and somewhat besottedly, as the new English couple in town begins to resemble Charles and Emma Bovary in more than name.
Review:
A neat idea from a source novel also happens to mine perfectly Luchini's screen persona as the entranced but cynical intellectual, alive with ideas but devoid of action. Arterton is also cast to type (cf. Tamara Drewe) as the less naïve, less indebted Emma Bovary character, whose frank physicality and out-of-season summer frocks cause so many stirrings in the person of our narrator, who is of course Flaubert's avatar here. The linguistic stuff is handled much better than in most Euro-pudding productions, though even there some may baulk at Gemma's rapid mastery of French colloquy, and we are not spared the less comfortable aspects of retirement to the country, but it is above all a witty delight to watch, this poignant comedy of old and young love.
Country: FR/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier
Synopsis:
A baker of a Normandy village looks on helplessly, and somewhat besottedly, as the new English couple in town begins to resemble Charles and Emma Bovary in more than name.
Review:
A neat idea from a source novel also happens to mine perfectly Luchini's screen persona as the entranced but cynical intellectual, alive with ideas but devoid of action. Arterton is also cast to type (cf. Tamara Drewe) as the less naïve, less indebted Emma Bovary character, whose frank physicality and out-of-season summer frocks cause so many stirrings in the person of our narrator, who is of course Flaubert's avatar here. The linguistic stuff is handled much better than in most Euro-pudding productions, though even there some may baulk at Gemma's rapid mastery of French colloquy, and we are not spared the less comfortable aspects of retirement to the country, but it is above all a witty delight to watch, this poignant comedy of old and young love.
Country: FR/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier
Synopsis:
A baker of a Normandy village looks on helplessly, and somewhat besottedly, as the new English couple in town begins to resemble Charles and Emma Bovary in more than name.
Review:
A neat idea from a source novel also happens to mine perfectly Luchini's screen persona as the entranced but cynical intellectual, alive with ideas but devoid of action. Arterton is also cast to type (cf. Tamara Drewe) as the less naïve, less indebted Emma Bovary character, whose frank physicality and out-of-season summer frocks cause so many stirrings in the person of our narrator, who is of course Flaubert's avatar here. The linguistic stuff is handled much better than in most Euro-pudding productions, though even there some may baulk at Gemma's rapid mastery of French colloquy, and we are not spared the less comfortable aspects of retirement to the country, but it is above all a witty delight to watch, this poignant comedy of old and young love.