The Emma Bovary Trial

September. 15,2021      
Rating:
6.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.

Natalia Dontcheva as  Self - Narrator (voice)
Jacques Rancière as  Self - Philosopher
Karl Ove Knausgård as  Self - Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa as  Self - Writer
Nathalie Sarraute as  Self - Writer (archive footage)
Maurice Nadeau as  Self - Writer (archive footage)
Julian Barnes as  Self - Writer (archive footage)
Isabelle Huppert as  Self - Actress (archive footage)
Mia Wasikowska as  Self - Actress (archive footage)
Jean Renoir as  Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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Reviews

JinRoz
2021/09/15

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

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Afouotos
2021/09/16

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Jonah Abbott
2021/09/17

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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Mathilde the Guild
2021/09/18

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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