On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
Length 53 minutes
Natalia Dontcheva | Vincent Sacripanti | Tiago Rodrigues | Catherine Millet | Jacques Rancière | Karl Ove Knausgård | Mario Vargas Llosa | Régis Jauffret | Nathalie Sarraute | Maurice Nadeau | Julian Barnes | Isabelle Huppert | Mia Wasikowska | Sophie Barthes | Jean Renoir