![]() ![]() “Gemma Bovery” stars Gemma Arterton, who starred in the 2010 adaptation of Simmonds’ “Tamara Drewe,” as a beautiful young British woman who arrives in a small village in Normandy - the location of “Madame Bovary” - with her older husband (Jason Flemyng), a furniture restorer. Then I started reading it just out of curiosity, and I really liked it.” ![]() But then I was really curious to see how it was adapted and the angle. I remember thinking this is ridiculous - Renoir, Minnelli and Chabrol have made versions. My first reaction was I’m not touching this. “I didn’t write the original version of the script,” said Barthes. For Barthes, those earlier films were intimidating. Madame Bovary has a rich screen history, including movie versions by such auteurs as Jean Renoir, Vincente Minnelli and Claude Chabrol, who brought “Madame Bovary” to the silver screen. Barthes said the women in Flaubert’s world “would be highly educated, and then they would have nothing to do with this education. ![]()
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