Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A romantic busybody in Normandy becomes convinced a newly arrived English expat will end up just like her literary near-homonym in ...

Many British actors often feel trapped behind period pieces, with their difficult costumes and restrictive mannerisms, but that’s not an issue facing Gemma Arterton in this classic literary update.

We briefly covered Tamara Drewe here on CBM back in 2010, and now Bleeding Cool reports that Gemma Arterton has signed up to star in another big screen adaptation of one of Posy Simmonds' newspaper ...

A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine’s Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of ...

Gemma and Charles Bovery move into a farmhouse in Normandy, and their new neighbor can't control himself. Their names -- so close to the characters in Flaubert's masterpiece! Their behavior -- she's ...

Claude Chabrol is dead, but there’s Anne Fontaine to take his place as a French director who is prolific, reliable and always accessible, and whose work is like an ideal hybrid between French and ...

As a bored baker with an overactive imagination, the wonderful French actor Fabrice Luchini is the only reason to see “Gemma Bovery,” a mildly amusing riff on Flaubert. His character’s baguettes, ...

French director Anne Fontaine's Gemma Bovery is a comic reworking of Madame Bovary, but that's merely the first of the movie's several layers. The bilingual film is adapted not from Flaubert's classic ...

Martin is living a rather mundane life in the Northern France, operating a bakery in a small quaint village. He has an attentive but rather shrewish wife and a teenage son, but they don’t really ...

It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable tonal control from director Anne ...