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 ...

It would seem unlikely that a story about a 19th century young French woman escaping her marriage and tedious provincial life by embarking on scandalous affairs would have much appeal to 21st century ...

A peasant woman with a grievance drags it all the way up the ladder of bureaucracy in Feng Xiaogang's social satire. This sly comic parable, eccentrically tricked out in reductive screen formats ...

The story of Madame Bovary can be a tough sell or an easy one depending on your personal point of view. Much of it hinges on whether you believe the titular character's actions are acceptable or not.