It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable tonal control from director Anne ...

“Desire and death are intertwined,” we’re told in Gemma Bovery (3 stars on our 0-5 scale), a clever and occasionally funny satire on Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece. Though director Anne Fontaine’s ...

A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine’s Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of ...

PARIS– Chicago-based Music Box Films and U.K.’s Soda Pictures have acquired Anne Fontaine‘s “Gemma Bovery,” a romantic comedy toplining British rising star Gemma Arterton, on the heels of its Special ...

A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine's Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of ...

We briefly covered Tamara Drewe here on CBM back in 2010, and now Bleeding Cool reports that Gemma Arterton has signed up to star in another big screen adaptation of one of Posy Simmonds' newspaper ...

A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine’s Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of ...

When I sat down to view "Gemma Bovery" at the COLCOA French Film Festival sponsored by Air Tahiti Nui recently, I anticipated the need to keep my concentration sharp through a weighty French ...

Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini in "Gemma Bovery" Imagine you’re a high school English teacher in Hannibal, Mo., and you get a mischievous new student named Huck Flynn. Or you’re a Southern ...

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the ...