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Oct 16, 2017QuentinHayes rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a luscious, whip-smart reply to Flaubert's classic tragedy of the woman who can't get what she wants out of life. Gemma Bovary is as unlike Mme Bovary as you could imagine--literally choking on the pleasures of life as she eats them up. The camera follows her adorable softness in little cotton dresses with the illicit perversity of the tragic, unfulfilled old man's eyes which the viewer both enjoys and can't help but creep out on. The benefits of feminism and the sexual revolution clearly missed his generation, but Gemma Bovary lives large.