![]() Telluride Awards Analysis: Payne-Giamatti Reunion 'The Holdovers' Could Net Best Actor Oscar Nom 'Sideways' Was Deniedīarthes, whose promising previous feature, Cold Souls, debuted at Sundance in 2009, does nothing to alter this history of frustrated attempts to crack the Flaubert code. Tedious, literal-minded and throwing no new light on Gustave Flaubert‘s oft-filmed 1857 novel about a young provincial woman’s boredom, adulteries and extravagant spending, Sophie Barthes‘ English-language, French-made adaptation has the ever-watchable Mia Wasikowska but very little else going for it, artistically or commercially.Īlthough Madame Bovary is firmly ensconced in the pantheon of Western literature’s greatest works, there’s clearly something about it that resists satisfying adaptation to the screen, as it has defeated even such imposing talents as Jean Renoir, Vincente Minnelli and Claude Chabrol, not to mention the half-dozen other directors who have taken up the challenge over the decades. Emma Bovary dies in the end, of course, but in this new film version she never even comes to life. ![]()
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