When I first went to the region, I fell in love with the country. We shot everything in the south of Normandy. “This was an aesthetic adventure together. “We love visual art and painting,” said Barthes. Her husband, Andrij Parekh, was the film’s cinematographer. “Madame Bovary” was a family affair for Barthes. Mia is someone who has a very strong inner life. “With Mia, I saw all of her work,” said the director. I wanted you to find her charming and warm.”įinding the right actress to play Emma was pivotal for Barthes. “I think the great thing about this adaptation of the story is making her English and a little bit wide-eyed. “I think in ‘Madame Bovary,’ she is not the most sympathetic character,” said Arterton, who moved to Paris to learn French before production began. Gemma is a far different protagonist than Emma. Simmonds, said Arterton, “has a real talent for taking those classic novels that are always so romantic with big emotions, big story and big language and sort of simplifies it and puts in a lot of humor in it and cheekiness.” But it doesn’t take long before life imitates Flaubert as Gemma becomes bored with her marriage and embarks on an affair. She quickly comes to the attention of her neighbor (Fabrice Luchini), the local baker and Flaubert fanatic, who becomes obsessed with his charming neighbor. “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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