Sophie Barthes’ “Madame Bovary” begins with an arresting image: A ghost-pale Emma Bovary (Mia Wasikowska) running through a damp forest, wearing a dress whose sallow green skirt is soaked with mud ...

Adapted from Flaubert's classic novel, Madame Bovary tells the tragic story of Emma (Wasikowska), a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor (Lloyd-Hughes) to leave her father's pig ...

There’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barthes’ pared down adaptation of the Flaubert novel is supple, hard hitting and feels contemporary, even set in the 19th century in a hidebound class conscious Normandy, France. Human behaviour has ...