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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I normally LOVE period dramas, so I tend to give them a pass on many things, but this is just BORING. I can't like the actress in this role. She's painful to watch at times. There are parts of this movie that made me want to check to see if it had the least words of any movie made. Huge swathes of minutes passing with no words, just her poking at things and staring. I had to stop watching it. Great looking men though if that's all it takes for you.

This is one of my all-time favorite books, so I was very excited to see it come to life. That being said I was real disappointed in this production! It seemed rushed to me. The pace of the movie was slow but being as I've read the book, there are parts of Mrs. Bovary's story that you can't leave out. This version of the story makes her seem very one-dimensional. She lost her mother as a baby and was raised by her beloved father, but there wasn't much in the way of women folk to guide her and she spent a great deal of time reading romance novels, which more than likely set her up for disappointment in married life. She wasn't a gold digger. As far as Mia Wasikowska, I dont think she was right for this role. I was rather bored with her performance. Maybe it was in the directing, but I found her to be dispassionate and too restrained. I absolutely loved the casting for the Marquis d'Andervilliers and Leon Dupuis. Logan Marshall Green was perfect for the strong and passionate first lover of Madame and Ezra Miller fit so well the boyish, more easily managed Leon (who was just as unmanageable as the marquis).

In the effort to show the protagonist's boredom I believe the director tried to bore the viewer to death. I found myself looking at the time and trying to ascertain how long did I have left to watch. I do not think this movie captured the character of themes of Madame Bovary. The casting was horrible the actors were either too youthful or just horrible for the roles they were portraying.

Mia Wasikowska in this new, atmospheric film adaptation of "Madame Bovary" (a revolutionary classic) makes a fascinating, sensitive, and convincing Emma; one that resembles not so much previous Bovary's from previous films, but actually the complicated, twenty-something, anti- heroine of the novel, which I've long loved. To me she captures a lot of the paradoxes and ambiguous aspects of Emma, and manages to create empathy while making so many foolish, self-destructive choices. I've watched the film twice, and by the second viewing I got past the differences from the book (I know all the dialogue and scenes) and the gradual pace of the film, and got into the stillness that builds to the emotional release. I haven't really felt any movie has come close to capturing the book (which may be an impossible feat) but this one has it's own poetic perspective, mystique and beauty (without the irony of the novel) and Mia's portrayal has the enigmatic, haunting qualities that have made me a Bovary addict.Scenes of Emma running ornately clad through cow pastures vividly show her stranger-in-a-strange-land status (a peacock surrounded by peasantry). There were many references to her conflicted relationship to nature, including the hunt with the Marquis that I thought worked well, showing her, after the killing of the stag, seeking some power equal to men - in her case, she expressed it in her sexuality (through adultery), and conspicuous consumption; of course, this didn't work out too well. I think that in both the book and this film, Emma is seeking some measure of power, and of course love, but in a very unconscious way. The final, climactic scene was movingly done; it felt real to me. This version of "Madame Bovary" is quite haunting, with a sad beauty of its own.The cinematography and the costumes are simply gorgeous, but they're more than eye-candy, they are integrally connected to the emotional changes in Emma and the times in which she lived.