The final perception of the production is that of having attended a meritorious effort to preserve the genius of the comic as much as possible. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

For all its Gallic charm, Gemma Bovery fails to find le note juste. As the film describes Flaubert's source material, nothing happens but at the same time it's (somewhat) interesting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

The film is relatively light-hearted and digestible for a tragedy, with an intoxicating sensual intelligence that forgives the occasional flights of flippancy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 19, 2019

It feels more that Gemma Bovery goes through the motions of the novel, restricted by its own pretensions to meet high-brow literature.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2019

Thanks largely to Fabrice Luchini's comic performance, it's reasonably entertaining, particularly if you're the kind of person who likes Flaubert references in your romantic comedies.

| Aug 23, 2018

The conceit is nicely done, with Arterton and Luchini making a moreish combination of passion and wariness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Still, the movie is so denuded of insight and incident it ends up more cartoonish than the comic book that spawned it.

| Mar 30, 2018

The second half, after Arterton has embarked on an affair with the son of a local landowner, does slightly disappoint, hampered by a story that doesn't quite make sense and by parallels to Flaubert that many won't get.

| Oct 30, 2017

Is art imitating life? Is life imitating art? Martin pretends to consider such lofty questions but really he's considering Gemma's ripe figure, which she's clearly enjoying as well. So are we.

| Aug 2, 2017

Ultimately, the movie turns out to be nothing more than a clumsy shaggy dog story - a wink and a nudge delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the eye.

| Jun 27, 2017

A modern day comedy that parodies in an obvious and kinda sloppy way the literary classic Madame Bovary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 1, 2016

A wickedly droll film that saunters towards its Flaubertesque end with a strangely carefree but knowing vibe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2016

From Anne Fontaine, writer/director of Coco Before Chanel, comes this lighthearted and lusty modern-day interpretation of Posy Simmonds' graphic novel based on Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel, Madame Bovary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2016

Gemma Bovery proves that just because you know a story, maybe even how it ends, that doesn't mean it is not worth hearing from the mouth of a new teller.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2016

A heavily eroticised Arterton enlivens the lumpy Franglais dialogue and Luchini wrings laughs from the unlovely vantage of voyeuristic saddo. But that's not enough to hold the film together, or, indeed, the viewer's interest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2016

Fontaine's film isn't as slyly satirical as Simmonds' original, but her rural locations and leading lady are equally ravishing, and the frisky rapport between Arterton and Lucchini is a joy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2016

Gemma Bovery is a mashup of Flaubert and a tired, outdated sex farce.

| Dec 31, 2015

It's elevated by its expert cast and by lovely photography that helps the viewer appreciate the lure of Normandy as well as the allure of the Gemmas (Bovery and Arterton).

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2015

Fontaine - opting for a less smugly satirical take on Simmonds's work than Frears - draws us into the fantasy world before chipping away at it to reveal something more melancholic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2015

After a promising and lighthearted start the picture becomes meandering and dreary, with little reason for us to be interested in or care about these characters despite the many lingering close-ups of Arterton.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2015