Free for apple download Madame Bovary10/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything seems to happen within a couple of weeks. ![]() The most frustrating thing about this film is that there is no sense of time passing. I don't know what is going on there but sometimes he sounds slightly French, sometimes purely French and at other times completely English. And what's going on with the accent mash up?! Most of the characters, including Emma, sound American, but her father has a French accent, others sound English and Rhys Ifans. Incidentally, the first time they see each other is during a stag hunt, when Emma rides astride her horse - surely not in rural France during the mid-18th century? Emma seems to attract men like flies, although I can't see anything in Wasikowska's Emma that would attract any man. In the movie she seems to meet her first male distraction the day after her wedding and then falls in love with the marquis simply by looking at him, demanding he rescue her from her disappointing life and sweep her off to a high society life almost immediately. Emma is supposed to transform into a depressed, frustrated, shadow of her former self, dulled by her uneventful country life with a dull husband she doesn't love before turning to other men and recklessly spending money she doesn't have to bring some excitement into her life. ![]() Wasikowska projects none of these qualities. I read the book quite a while ago but I remember picturing her as pretty, delicate, vivacious, fun-loving, lively, romantic, naive and gullible. Mia Wasikowska as Emma Bovary is one of the worst casting decisions I've ever seen. ![]()
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