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Gemma Bovery does not work as a film in any way whatsoever

I wished everyone had taken arsenic early on so that we could all go home

22 August 2015

9:00 AM

22 August 2015

9:00 AM

Gemma Bovery

15, Natiowide

Gemma Bovery is a modern-day refashioning of Gustave Flaubert’s literary masterpiece Madame Bovary, and while such refashionings can work well in some instances — Bridget Jones as Pride and Prejudice, for example, or West Side Story as Romeo and Juliet, if we want to go further back —this is not one of those instances.

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