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Useful as it may be for facts and stats, an actor’s Wikipedia page isn’t ever the go-to place for a complete, nuanced description of their thespian essence, and so it proves for Isabelle Huppert. “Known for her portrayals of cold, austere women devoid of morality, she is considered one of the greatest actresses of her generation,” states the introduction, in a strikingly selective encapsulation of over half a century on screen. Huppert can certainly do froideur and severity with flair — she’s imposing beyond the bounds of her diminutive frame in such rigorous, chill-carrying films as Claude Chabrol’s “La Cérémonie,” Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher” and of course Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,” though whether these complex, conflicted women are “devoid of morality” isn’t a call for any one web editor to make.

But it does Huppert an injustice to paint her, however admiringly, as some...

Notebook is covering the Locarno Film Festival with a series of correspondence pieces written by the participants in the Critics Academy.Illustrations by Lucy Jones.In our second missive from the Locarno Critics Academy, Leonard Krähmer, Lucía Requejo, and Katarina Docalovich put the filmmakers of the present in conversation with retrospective selections—particularly the films presented in “The Lady with the Torch,” the festival’s 2024 Retrospective surveying the history of Columbia Pictures, curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.The Crowd.Dear Kat and Lucía,Prioritizing the retrospective at a major festival like Locarno—which claims to be a haven for exciting new voices, where the Cineasti del Presente are put in the spotlight, and where cinema is questioned about its futures and dead ends—could be misconstrued as a relapse into nostalgia. There may be some truth to this, but short-circuiting the new and the old can cause a productive tension, perhaps...

Daniel Espinosa’s “Madame Luna,” about an Eritrean refugee-turned-people smuggler — which premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam — is facing legal turmoil. According to filmmaker Binyam Berhane, it’s based on his original story and research.

“I am very saddened to hear these accusations towards the movie and genuinely hope that all parties that are involved in this will be heard,” Espinosa tells Variety.

“I sincerely hope Binyam Berhane is well, I’ve only heard good things about him and he is a very talented documentary director. What I can express is a genuine trust in the producers and the production company Momento Film, and I hope this clears up for everyone involved.”

As per Deadline, the $2 million lawsuit is directed at Momento Film, Rhea Films and Hercules Film Fund.

“It is surprising to read Binyam Berhane’s version of events. At this time, we must refrain from commenting in detail,...

Paris-based sales agency and production company Luxbox has sold the French distribution rights to 12 pics of the late Portuguese maestro filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira to Capricci Films, which plans to release the restored films in cinemas across France from 2024.

Expressing his pride at adding some of Oliveira’s best films to its catalog, Capricci’s Louis Descombes said: “We had long hoped to be able to give new life to the unique, mischievous and incredibly modern work of the Portuguese filmmaker.” The Bordeaux-based distributor aims to kick off the releases with “Val Abraham” in the spring.

Bringing back Oliveira’s films to French cinemas “wouldn’t be possible without the work of the Portuguese Cinematheque which already restored ‘Abraham’s Valley’ and will continue the digitization and restoration of the rest of the films in 2024, including Oliveira’s first film, ‘Aniki-Bóbó,’” said Luxbox CEO, Fiorella Moretti.

Inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s classic tale Madame Bovary,...

Aftersun protagonists, Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio feature on the poster for this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week Photo: La Semaine de la Critique With the launch of the official programme of the 76th Cannes Film Festival due with much baited breath in mid-April some of the sidebar sections are ready with revelations.

The 55th edition of the Directors' Fortnight reveals itself, “luminous and adventurous. Serene, with no frills,” according to the organisers.

The striking image is of Portuguese actress Leonor Silveira who is said to “question our gaze.”

Portuguese actress Leonor Silveira is the poster image for this year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Photo: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs The 2023 poster pays tribute to Manoel de Oliveira's Abraham’s Valley (inspired by Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its selection (1993 Directors' Fortnight).

As censorship was jeopardising the publication of his novel, Flaubert declared: "There is...

The 2023 Directors’ Fortnight runs in Cannes from May 16-27.

Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight (La Quinzaine des Cinéastes) has unveiled its 2023 poster ahead of its 55th edition complete with a new name and a new artistic director.

The 2023 poster features an image of Portuguese actress Leonor Silveira in tribute to Manoel de Oliveira’s 1993 feature Abraham’s Valley (inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary) and celebrates the 30th anniversary of its selection at Directors’ Fortnight that year.

Founded in 1969 by France’s directors’ guild the Srf (Société des réalisateurs de films), Directors’ Fortnight is heading into its 55th edition with a complete makeover.

Les Films du Losange will also kick off sales on Nicolas Philibert’s ’On the Adamant’ and Patric Chiha’s ’The Beast In The Jungle’ at the Rendez-Vous in Paris.

Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for Benoit Jacquot’s By Heart (Par Coeurs) that will market premiere at Unifrance’s upcoming January Rendez-Vous in Paris.

The documentary follows Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini learning their lines as they prepare to take the stage at the 2021 famous Festival d’Avignon theatre festival in Southern France. Jacquot’s camera follows them behind-the-scenes, in rehearsals and during their performances as they...

Ivana Miloš, Agatha and the Limitless (2022), monotype, gouache, and collage on paper.Summer in WinterWhat would we do without air, without light?—Marguerite Duras, Agatha and the Limitless ReadingsThe hotel Les Roches Noires was located in Trouville-sur-Mer, France, and, as with so many hotels, its fame came from its visitors, in this case Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Claude Monet, and Marguerite Duras. In 1981, the foyer of the hotel was decorated with several intriguing, almost otherworldly plants whose type it is difficult for an amateur to classify. I know of these plants because Duras used the abandoned off-season, Second Empire-style hotel, which served as her temporary home, as a location to film Agatha and the Limitless Readings in March of that year. With different texts and films set in Les Roches Noires, this should not remain the last time Duras looked through its huge windows towards the English Channel but the...

The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&a with translator Molly Ringwald

When French writer Philippe Besson was introduced to Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron at a dinner five years ago, it was friendship at first sight. Besson recalls that he and the woman who would become France’s first lady chatted about her favourite literary figure, Emma Bovary.

The choice of Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine who is passionate and bored with the banality of provincial life but trapped in a mediocre marriage, was not, Besson thinks, an accident. After all, it is no secret that Brigitte was married with three children and working as a teacher in the provincial northern city of Amiens when she began a relationship with Emmanuel Macron, 24 years her junior.

A Paris Education (Mes Provinciales)‬ director Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I had the idea for the film after seeing the Marlen Khutsiev film of which we see an excerpt in the film. It's called La Porte D'Ilitch [I Am Twenty]." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

When was the last time Novalis (writer of the early Romantic movement and champion of the blue flower) was quoted in a film? Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (shot by Pierre-Hubert Martin, edited by Louise Narboni), starring Andranic Manet (Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living) with Sophie Verbeeck (Jérôme Bonnell's All About Them), Diane Rouxel (Frédéric Mermoud's Moka), Jenna Thiam (Cédric Kahn's Wild Life), Gonzague Van Bervesseles, and Corentin Fila, illuminates the sundry elements of what actually constitutes education.

Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I think there's a parallel there with the end of Flaubert's Sentimental Education where the characters say, what we lived that was most powerful, is something that happened before.

Talking with Tiff CEO Piers Handling, Huppert discussed her career, which includes over 100 film credits.

Isabelle Huppert is in focus at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival (Tiff), with the French actress starring in three films in this year’s programme: Elle, Souvenir and Things To Come.

Speaking to festival director and CEO Piers Handling in a masterclass on Saturday (Sept 10), Huppert – whose resume includes over 100 films, television and theatre productions, peppered with a bevy of awards recognition including 15 Cesar nominations – spoke candidly about the highs and lows of her career.

Michael Haneke, Michael Cimino, Claude Chabrol and Claire Denis were among the list of directors she gave credit for helping her to grow as an actress. French New Wave director Chabrol, she said, gave her little direction, in turn granting her almost complete artistic license.

“Working with a director is like building a strong friendship. There is desire, there is love – and for me, reality and truthfulness...

A Scott Berg with Michael Grandage, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Michael Grandage's Genius, starring Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney, written by John Logan, based on Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, by A Scott Berg, has Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway, Guy Pearce as F Scott Fitzgerald and Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald to round out their literary world.

Max Perkins (Colin Firth) with Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law)

Scott Berg also wrote Kate Remembered, about Katharine Hepburn, who died on this date, June 29 in 2003. Cate Blanchett in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (written by Logan), a Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway connection and Fitzgerald's Garden of Allah were revisited in our conversation.

Thomas Wolfe's (Jude Law) problem is that he can't stop writing. Like a feverish Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the page, he burns himself out. And the people around him,...

“What seems beautiful to me, what I would like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the internal strength of its style.” That’s a quote from revered 19th century French novelist Gustave Flaubert, but it could just as easily serve as a mission statement for “Seinfeld,” the 1990s television comedy that radically and defiantly re-wrote the rules of the modern sitcom. Ardent and casual fans alike refer to “Seinfeld” as “the show about nothing” —it’s a series founded on trivial minutiae, questionable social blunders and a commitment to questioning every tiny, seemingly insignificant facet of modern life. A show about nothing shouldn't be mistaken for a show where nothing goes on: “Seinfeld” remains perhaps the definitive sitcom statement of its time, continually upending every standard of traditional T.V. by adhering to co-creator Larry David’s famous “no hugs,...

'Saint Joan': Constance Cummings as the George Bernard Shaw heroine. Constance Cummings on stage: From sex-change farce and Emma Bovary to Juliet and 'Saint Joan' (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Frank Capra, Mae West and Columbia Lawsuit.”) In the mid-1930s, Constance Cummings landed the title roles in two of husband Benn W. Levy's stage adaptations: Levy and Hubert Griffith's Young Madame Conti (1936), starring Cummings as a demimondaine who falls in love with a villainous character. She ends up killing him – or does she? Adapted from Bruno Frank's German-language original, Young Madame Conti was presented on both sides of the Atlantic; on Broadway, it had a brief run in spring 1937 at the Music Box Theatre. Based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, the Theatre Guild-produced Madame Bovary (1937) was staged in late fall at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. Referring to the London production of Young Madame Conti, The...

Exclusive: Radiant Films International has struck at the market with Klockworx for Japanese rights to two titles on its slate.

President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and her team have sold Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller and Hungry Hearts with Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher.

Madame Bovary is based on Gustave Flaubert’s classic story about a provincial doctor’s wife desperate to escape her banal existence. Occupant Entertainment produced in association with Barthes’ Aden Film and Aleph Motion Picture. Alchemy distributed in the Us.

Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts earned its two leads best actor and actress prizes at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and tells of a couple’s struggle over the life of their newborn child.

“Both Madame Bovary and Hungry Hearts are powerful films with distinctive and memorable performances from star-studded casts,” said Steinbaeur. “I am thrilled that Klockworx, one of Japan’s finest distributors, has seen the...

[Editor's Note: This post is presented in partnership with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand in support of Indie Film Month. Today's pick, "Gemma Bovery," is available now On Demand. Need help finding a movie to watch? Let TWC find the best fit for your mood here.] Read More: 9 Indies That Were Better Than the Books On Which They Were Based Based on Posy Simmons' graphic novel of the same name (which, in turn, spun off Gustave Flaubert's classic "Madame Bovery"), Anne Fontaine's "Gemma Bovery" explores the wild life of the titular Gemma (Gemma Arterton, naturally), as her own experience oddly echoes the plots and machinations of Flaubert's beloved novel (coincidence? nah). Part romance, part comedy and part drama, "Gemma Bovery" gives new life to the classic novel it pulls so generously from, while honoring the grand tradition of movie characters who are just nuts...

★★☆☆☆ "A boring woman sick of her boring life is not boring," claims Martin (Fabrice Luhini), the nosey French neighbour of Gemma Arterton's titular Gemma Bovery (2014). He's the narrator of this strangely quaint adaptation of Posy Simmons's graphic novel that updates Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary into a sarky modern setting. Martin, a former publisher who has relocated to Normandy, is struck by how closely his new neighbour's life mirrors that of his literary heroine, Bovary - even to the name. Gemma moves with her husband (Jason Flemyng) to a dilapidated cottage and embraces Gallic life drinking wine, visiting the market, going to the boulangerie so she can learn the French for croissant.

Director: Anne Fontaine; Screenwriters: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer; Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider; Running time: 99 mins; Certificate: 15

Gemma Arterton sets pulses racing in rural France as a modern, much fluffier version of Gustave Flaubert's 19th-century heroine Madame Bovary, but in essence, she is merely replaying her part in 2010's similarly-themed comedy drama Tamara Drewe; that is to say, an object of lust rather than a fully fleshed-out human being.

Both films are based on graphic novels by Posy Simmonds which started life as cartoon strips for The Guardian (the former being a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd). In this case, Flaubert's fallen woman, Gemma, is a Londoner who moves to Normandy with her furniture restorer husband (Jason Flemyng) to live the bucolic life that many a tube-riding, broadsheet-reader fantasises about. Arterton is, as usual, bursting with charm, although the focus is...

Gustave Flaubert’s perennial novel Madame Bovary is the subject of a faithful adaptation this year, with Mia Wasikowska playing the eponymous protagonist. But it’s not the only retelling of this definitive tale, as Anne Fontaine’s whimsical comedy Gemma Bovery tells a somewhat more subtle, and certainly more creative version – taken directly from Posy

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Read More: Mia Wasikowska on Being 'Crucified' For 'Madame Bovary' and the Grueling Experience of 'Crimson Peak' Gustave Flaubert's classic novel "Madame Bovary" is no stranger to the big screen, as the 1865 book (impressively enough, it was Flaubert's debut novel) has been translated to film at least seven times over the decades, including a Jean Renoir-directed version from 1934 and a breathless, Isabelle Huppert-starring 1991 take from Claude Chabrol. But that didn't stop filmmaker Sophie Barthes from wanting to make it her own. For her version, Barthes abstained from trying to turn the story of a brutally unsatisfied woman -- Madame Bovary herself -- into an overly modern tale about shame and the consumption of material goods, instead relying on the strength of Flaubert's original story. The result is a mostly faithful take on the novel, which sees Mia Wasikowska memorably taking up the role of Emma Bovary, a...

Madame Bovary Alchemy Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya. Grade: B Director: Sophie Barthes Screenwriter: Felipe Marino, Sophie Barthes, based on Gustave Flaubert’s novel Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Laura Carmichael, Olivier Gourmet, Paul Giamatti Release date: DVD August 4, 2015 Madame Bovary have been scripted into films on the big screen many times, starting with the 1932 Albert Ray’s version, which was followed by 1949 Vincente Minneli’s, 1969 Hans Schott Schobinger’s, 1991 Claude Chabrol and the latest of 2014 Sophie Barthes’. Director Barthes took some liberties with Flaubert’s novel, by introducing us to Emma (Mia Wasikowska), a pig-farmer’s daughter completing her [ Read More ]

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Passionately working to achieve your dreams can often be a positive process for people as they strive to improve their lives. But longing and aiming to better your own position in society can also have negative consequences, especially if the actions you take to achieve your goals evoke unfavorable emotions in the people who deeply care about you. French director Sophie Barthes intriguingly realized her goal of releasing her film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s acclaimed novel, ‘Madame Bovary,’ after several years of financial setbacks. The filmmaker’s dream of bringing her version of the story to the screen came true when the drama was released in theaters on June 12, and [ Read More ]

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The follow-up to Magic Mike lacks numerous elements that helped make the original a global hit: director Steven Soderbergh, Matthew McConaughey, the semblance of a plot and a modicum of wit and intelligence.

None of that seems to bother the Australian females and some blokes who are flocking to Magic Mike Xxl.

The raunchy comedy directed by Gregory Jacobs whipped up about $1 million from last Monday night.s arena premiere in Sydney and Wednesday.s Chicks at the Flicks screenings at Event Cinemas.

The film starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Amber Heard and Jada Pinkett Smith raked in $4.1 million from Thursday to Sunday, ranked in third place, so the cume is $5.1 million.

That.s a stronger debut than Magic Mike, which took $3.8 million in its first weekend and finished with $12.5 million in 2012.

The original saga of the Kings of Tampa, also written by Reid Carolin,...

Read More: Mia Wasikowska on Making 'Tracks' and Returning to 'Wonderland' Without Tim BurtonThere's a line from Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel "Madame Bovary" that reads, "Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." Mia Wasikowska paid no heed to this warning. The actress, who plays Emma Bovary in Sophie Barthes' recently released adaptation of the groundbreaking novel, has surprisingly few qualms about embodying one of the most iconic female figures in literary history. "People have been imagining Emma Bovary for hundreds of years, and you don’t want fans of the novel to crucify you for portraying her in a different way," Wasikowska told Indiewire. "It’s a little daunting when there’s a huge fan base for a particular novel or character. But I just try to put it out of my mind." This isn't the first time 25-year-old Australian-born Wasikowska has portrayed a literary icon.

On its surface, Sophie Barthes’s film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes at us like a musty blast of Quality — what the French New Wave critics once called “le cinema du papa.” An immaculate period adaptation seemingly lacking any ironic distance or newfangled reinvention, this feels at first like the kind of Bovary you can lose yourself in — all petticoats and proprieties. (That this is the second Madame Bovary adaptation to open on U.S. shores this month, hot on the heels of Anne Fontaine’s well-acted, but ultimately thin modernization Gemma Bovery, maybe adds to the been-there, done-that quality.) But look closely and you may see that this madame is alive in all sorts of ways. At least for its first half, this is a textured, haunted, remarkably empathetic film. Barthes and her co-writer Felipe Marino feel this Emma Bovary — and they make sure we do, too.

Good Time Gal: Barthes’ Sensible Remake of Flaubert’s Classic Novel

Few literary protagonists have reached the heights of notability as the infamous Madame Bovary, from the proto-feminist novel written by French author Gustave Flaubert in 1857. Examining the selfish and inevitably tragic actions of a discontented wife, the titular character is also rather hard to sympathize with considering a multitude of understandable yet frustrating actions. As many literary figures, she’s been resurrected for the big and small screen on multiple occasions over the decades, generally to troubled critical reception. Though Claude Chabrol’s 1991 adaptation is somewhat regarded as the definitive film version, this latest examination is the first to be directed by a woman, a detail being used as a selling point for tuning in. But even if you can ignore the fact that a notoriously bi-sexual French man originally penned the material inspiring this English language co-production, it...

A cold, sterile film, bereft of the spirit and danger Gustave Flaubert’s groundbreaking novel demands. I’m “biast” (pro): love Mia Wasikowska

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

It’s kind of ironic, but if you want a sense of the stifling, dull life young Emma Bovary desires escape from, in her early-18th-century rural French countryside, this rendition of Gustave Flaubert’s groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary does a pretty good — if unintentional — job of it. Not even the awesome Mia Wasikowska (Maps to the Stars) can save this tepid and charmless adaptation, from director Sophie Barthes, which is a real shame, because it’s a wonderful classic tale of how the things the world told (and still tells) women we should be happy with — a reliable husband; a nice home — simply...

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. Emma is here played by Mia Wasikowska, who marries a country doctor and ruins her life through a series of mistakes, affairs and errors in the heedless, headlong and constant pursuit of more. See Video:: Guillermo del Toro's 'Crimson Peak' Trailer Features Lots of Creeps Haunting Mia Wasikowska (Video) Adapted by Barthes and Felipe Marino, this screenplay jettisons whole sections of Flaubert’s novel — children, affairs, characters — and shortens Emma’s story from.

It is not a prerequisite that the period costume drama needs a hook, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. Joe Wright’s stylish “Anna Karenina” dazzled with a theatrical approach, and Andrea Arnold’s “Wuthering Heights” employed an austere commitment to form coupled with an expressively Malick-ian appreciation of nature. Gracefully pitched acting can also be enough (see James Gray’s “The Immigrant”), but unfortunately for Sophie Barthes, her adaptation of “Madame Bovary” is largely bereft of these qualities in any compelling form. Instead, the movie is delivered in a restrained, far-too-measured tone that is often flat and enervating. There have been countless TV and film adaptations of “Madame Bovary.” In cinema, Vincente Minnelli, Albert Ray, Claude Chabrol, and Jean Renoir have all had a go at Gustave Flaubert's debut novel, but rarely have the writer's sensibilities been rendered for the screen by a female director. But feminist thoughtfulness...

Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery is a cinematic hall of self-referential mirrors. The English actress Gemma Arterton plays Gemma Bovery, an English woman who moves to Normandy with her husband, and whose life begins to echo that of Emma Bovary, the protagonist of Madame Bovary, which the 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert wrote and set in Normandy. Meanwhile, a local baker and literature aficionado, played by Fabrice Luchini, marvels at the fact that the great heroine of his youth appears to have found her reincarnation and is living next door. Life imitates art imitating life imitating art. Got all that?First, the good news: This might be the best performance the real-life Gemma (a.k.a. Arterton) has yet given, broken French and all. The actress is best known for stuff like Quantum of Solace, or Clash of the Titans, or Prince of Persia, or Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, in...

Oh, to be beautiful and bored. It has been over 150 years since Gustave Flaubert shocked the world with "Madame Bovary," his groundbreaking book about a provincial doctor's wife who embarks on a tragic affair to escape her dull, routine life. And ever since, the character of Emma Bovary has become both a literary and cinematic archetype, fueling an entire subgenre of stories about women looking to escape their circumstances, only to find hard consequences following dalliances outside their marriage and home. It's a story that still resonates (see our review of Sophie Barthes' straightforward take on the novel starring Mia Wasikowska), but can present-day riff "Gemma Bovary" find any new insights to the yarn Flaubert spun over a century and a half ago? The short answer is no, but then again, Anne Fontaine's film isn't exactly trying to be progressive either. Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds,...

If you're a fan of literary adaptations, then May is your lucky month. It'll kick off with Thomas Vinterberg's take on Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd," and then closing off the month will be "Gemma Bovery." It's a spin on Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," and after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, it's now headed to cinemas and a new U.S. trailer is here. Directed by Anne Fontaine ("Adore," "Coco Before Chanel"), the film follows a stunning British woman who moves with her husband to rural France. But soon her presence stirs all sorts of passion, via a local baker and a playboy. But for all the promise, this is one that we found "attempts to bring new heat to an old story, but mostly winds up cooling on the sill." "Gemma Bovery" opens on May 29th. Watch below.

The middle of Spring actually means a new selection of summer blockbusters to look forward to, and with a ton of big-budget films slated to come out within the next few months and beyond, the summer of 2015 looks like one to remember.

From the new Mad Max (which is already on our end-of -year top ten list event though we haven’t yet seen it) to Avengers, Poltergeists, male strippers, talking teddy bears, and a reboot of the Jurassic Park franchise, this summer’s trips to the theaters will be jam-packed with sequels and new tales. From May 1st right through to the end of August, some of the movies on our list could wind up on year-end “best of” lists or even receive some Oscar talk by December.

Grab your calendar, because Wamg has a rundown of this summer’s films we’re most excited about, so check them out below!

Mia Wasikowska's Madame Bovary has found a home in numerous foreign markets, including France and Italy. Radiant Films International president-ceo Mimi Steinbauer revealed the deals at Berlin's European Film Market. Read more Berlin: Women Directors Grab the Spotlight Directed by Sophie Barthes, Madame Bovary made its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and quickly landed a U.S. home with Alchemy, formerly known as Millennium Entertainment. Felipe Marino adapted the screenplay from Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of the same name with Barthes. Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans and Ezra Miller also star. Radiant has sold Madame Bovary to

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Sophie Barthes's Madame Bovary has released a new trailer.

Mia Wasikowska stars in the title role in the adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classic 1856 novel.

Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Paul Giamatti also feature in the movie.

The film centres around a young doctor's wife who finds herself dissatisfied with her life in provincial France.

She becomes entangled in debt and extramarital affairs while trying to bring some excitement to her life.

Wasikowska starred in previous literary adaptations Alice in Wonderland and Jane Eyre.

Madame Bovary is yet to announce its release schedule.

Today we have a trailer for the upcoming "Madame Bovary," which is based on Gustave Flaubert's 1856 French classic novel and stars Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ians, Paul Giamatti, Ezra Miller, and Logan Marshall-Green. Check it out below. Plot: The story follows Emma (Wasikowska), who has always dreamt of a finer life than the one she has on her father's pig farm. Marrying Mr. Charles Bovary would make this possible. Feeling trapped, Emma seeks solace with other men, including a passionate kindred spirit named Leon (Miller) and a wealthy nobleman, the Marquis (Marshall-Green). A series of affairs and the temptation of living above her means lead Emma down a dark path. The new movie is directed by Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls). It has yet to get a release date. Trailer:...

The contemporary taste for corseted melodramas continues to go unsatisfied, as more and more films hit theaters based on classic novels that tell tales of social mores, adultery, and entrapment in whale bone and hoop skirts. Mia Wasikowska looks good in those clothes, just like Nicole Kidman before her, and so continues to be the go-to actress to play waifish young women of a bygone era. Her latest performance is in Madame Bovary, an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel.

Madame Bovary tells the story of a woman who marries a doctor and promptly falls for another man. Trapped in a loveless marriage (is there any other during the Victorian period?), Madame Bovary soon finds herself dreaming of a different life. Things are not going to end well, however, as any literature student can tell you.

The trailer for Madame Bovary makes certain that we know that this is...

Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) is Emma Bovary in this latest adaptation of the famous debut novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. The story takes place in Normandy, France, where Emma, a farmer’s daughter, marries Charles Bovary, a young doctor. Unfortunately married life is not what Emma thought it would be. Tired of […]

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Sneak Peek footage from director Sophie Barthes adaptation of author Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary", starring Mia Wasikowska, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller:

"...set in Normandy, France, 'Emma' (Wasikowska), a farmer's daughter, marries 'Charles Bovary' (Lloyd-Hughes), a young doctor, but soon tires of him and her mundane life, longing for romance and a more fulfilling existence. She has extramarital affairs that momentarily give her happiness but ultimately further her depression..."

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It may not have received tremendous reviews out of the festivals last fall, but Sophie Barthes‘s Madame Bovary has a number of things going for it. On the top of the list is that it stars the wonderful Mia Wasikowska and may just be one of our last chances of watching her in a costume drama that isn’t Alice in Wonderland 2 for a while. Wasikowska has otherwise been on a roll lately with her varied roles since the first Alice movie five years ago. In 2014 alone, we got to see her in Only Lovers Left Alive, The Double, Tracks and Maps to the Stars. If we didn’t also have the opportunity to catch Bovary at Telluride or Toronto, then 2015 is sure to be another good year for us fans of the young actress, between this and Guillermo del Toro’s period-piece horror film Crimson Peak. In the movie at hand, another...

It has been over 60 years since Hollywood has made a big-screen adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1856 "Madame Bovary." As one of the most beloved literary classics of all time, this is a whale of a project, especially for second-time director Sophie Barthes ("Cold Souls").  "Madame Bovary" stars the lovely Mia Wasikowska as the unhappily married titular character living in 19th century France. Emma Bovary searches desperately for a spark in her life after marrying distant country doctor Charles Bovary. Wasikowska seems a natural choice for the lead role, as she has already portrayed literary heroines with strength and vivacity in "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) and "Jane Eyre" (2011).   In attempts to escape the lonely dullness of her married life, Bovary conducts love affairs with several men, and shops so vigorously that her husband falls into debt. As The Playlist reported, "The adaptation...

Having already tackled Alice in Wonderland for Tim Burton and Jane Eyre for Cary Fukunaga, Mia Wasikowska has found herself yet another adaptation of a literary classic about a young woman looking for more. Directed by Sophie Barthes and based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary stars Wasikowska as Emma. She marries a small-town doctor and then […]

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Alchemy has sent us this gorgeously lush new trailer and poster for Madame Bovary. The movie stars Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Ezra Miller, Rhys Ifans, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Logan Marshall-Green and Laura Carmichael.

Set in Normandy, France, Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert’s classic story of Emma Bovary (Mia Wasikowska), a young beauty who impulsively marries small-town doctor, Charles Bovary (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), to leave her father’s pig farm far behind. But after being introduced to the glamorous world of high society, she soon becomes bored with her stodgy husband and mundane life, and seeks prestige and excitement outside the bonds of marriage.

The film is directed by Sophie Barthes with the screenplay by Rose Barreneche and Sophie Barthes based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert.

Alchemy will release Madame Bovary in Summer 2015.

For more info: www.madamebovarythemovie.com

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The first trailer for the newest adaptation of Gustave Flaubert‘s “Madame Bovary” has been released, with Mia Wasikowska in the titular role. Helmed by Sophie Barthes (“Cold Souls”), the film follows the classic story of Emma Bovary (Wasikowska), wife of a small town doctor, as she uses adulterous means to push past the provincial life she’s been given. Cast of the film alongside Wasikowska include Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, Rhys Ifans, Paul Giamatti and Logan Marshall-Green. While no release date has been set, the film has made rounds on the festival circuit and seems likely for a pickup. Check out [...]

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If you've been feeling like you need a little more nutrition with respect to your otherwise blockbuster-heavy cinematic diet, maybe "Madame Bovary" is worth digesting. The adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel, starring Mia Wasikowska, debuted at the Telluride Film Festival last fall, and hit Toronto and London not long after, but failed to make much of an impression. Anyway, it looks like its now headed to theaters, as the first trailer has arrived. Co-starring Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans and Ezra Miller with Sophie Barthes ("Cold Souls") directing, the movie tells the story of a country girl who seemingly marries into the gentry with a doctor. But she soon discovers he's got a PhD in Being No Fun, and the Madame takes up a romance with a dashing young suitor. Inevitably, corsets, lace and oh so many dramas ensue. Yet our review from Telluride didn't think much of the movie,...

François Ozon seems to be fascinated by what makes writers tick. And he loves to prod the viewer to reconsider his/her mental evaluation of fiction and reality as they watch his later films.

Many viewers are likely to initially consider the superb tale of In the House to be solely Ozon’s creative work; it is not. In the House appears to be almost totally leaning on the product of a contemporary Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga titled The Boy in the Last Row, if one goes by the reviews of the play. It is, thus, not a coincidence that the French film went on to win the well-deserved Golden Shell (the grand prize) and the Jury prize for Best Screenplay at the San Sebastian film Festival in Spain. Then why is the film important, if almost all the credit rests with the play on which the film is built?...

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There have been plenty of film adaptations of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel “Madame Bovary,” but it is perhaps Sophie Barthes’ version that assigns the most sizable emphasis on the titular character. Based on the 1856 novel of the same name, “Madame Bovary” tells the tale of the disillusioned Emma Bovary (played by Mia Wasikowska) who attempts to elevate her social status by engaging in lavish spending and amorous secret affairs. As expected, this excessive lifestyle catches up with her forcing her to face the consequences, and face them, she does, in an inevitable downward spiral. As somewhat of a cautionary [...]

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After shoring up in Toronto with their Cannes pick-ups in Alleluia and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, the Music Box Films folks have landed their Tiff item. In what should be a significant month of post Tiff month of deal announcements, Music Box’s William Schopf has, according to Variety, made his first item pick-up (we feel that there’ll be more in the pipeline) in Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery. Starring another Gemma in Gemma Arterton, the title had the odd distinction of being included at the fest alongside Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovery. Fontaine’s film as an outside chance at picking up France’s Foreign Oscar nom, and though the trade doesn’t mention it, we expect a 2015 release.

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Millennium Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Sophie Barthes’ drama “Madame Bovary,” which stars Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller and Logan Marshall-Green. The movie made its world debut in Telluride and will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Also read: Millennium Entertainment's Catalog, Distribution Sold to Management Team, Virgo Entertainment Henry Lloyd-Hughes (“Anna Karenina”) and Laura Carmichael (“Downtown Abbey”) co-star in the film, which Felipe Marino adapted from Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of the same name along with Barthes. In “Madame Bovary,” Emma (Wasikowska) has always dreamt of a finer...