2014 · romance · drama · comedy
Gemma Bovery
Directed by Anne Fontaine1h 39m2014
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
Our read: Gemma Bovery (2014) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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