I Am Not Madame Bovary

Original title: Wo bu shi Pan Jin Lian

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6.9/10

2.5K

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Tao Guo, Lixin Zhao, Jia-yi Zhang, Bingbing Fan, Wei Fan, Hua Liu, Hewei Yu, Yi Zhang, Da Peng, and Zonghan Li in I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)

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Comedy Drama

After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.After being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 33 wins & 30 nominations

Guo Nong
(as Fan Wei)

Xiaogang Feng

Narrator

Tao Guo

Zhao Datou

Zonghan Li

Qin Yuhe
(as Li Zonghan)

Hua Liu

Lao Hu
(as Liu Hua)

Da Peng

Wang Gongdao

Hai Tao

Hewei Yu

Zheng Zhong
(as Yu Hewei)

Jia-yi Zhang

Ma Wenbin
(as Zhang Jiayi)

Yi Zhang

Jia Congming
(as Zhang Yi)

Lixin Zhao

Shi Weimin
(as Zhao Lixin)

Director
- Xiaogang Feng
Writer
- Zhenyun Liu
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
The film is presented in four aspect ratios. The majority of the film is in a circular frame, most scenes taking place in Beijing are in a square frame (1:1), one shot of a bus is in widescreen 16:9, and the last scene (including end credits) is in the cinematic 2.39:1 frame.

Quotes
Leader: A sesame seed has become a watermelon.
[pause]
Leader: An ant has become an elephant.

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Featured review

5/10

Lovely Cinematography, but...

... this is *way* too long for the slight storyline. From about half-way through I was just hoping for it to end.

To be fair, I'm not a fan of courtroom drama so - even though none of this plays out in an actual courtroom - I belatedly realised that the same "individual versus the system" tropes would be at play and I would (did) lose patience. It was a nice touch though to see some of the officials blaming themselves rather than the victim, for a change.

Individual scenes I'm sure would have had Christopher Doyle and Peter Greenaway swooning with the setup and colour balance but for me, these (and the presence of the wonderful Fan Bing Bing) were nowhere near enough to maintain interest.

I'm sure - as a foreigner - I missed or didn't appreciate many of the subtle cultural nuances, but neither do I feel that I learned anything. Never mind.