Madame Bovary

2015 • 118 minutes

About this movie

Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel that transformed the Romantic era, MADAME BOVARY stars Mia Wasikowska (JANE EYRE; ALICE IN WONDERLAND), Ezra Miller (PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER), Rhys Ifans (VANITY FAIR), Laura Carmichael (“Downton Abbey”), and Paul Giamatti (ROMEO & JULIET).

Ratings and reviews

Visually stunning, but very slow.

Slow, boring with a "dead" ending.

Undoubtedly one of the worst books I was forced to read.