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The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)

Directed by Audrey Gordon

Overview

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

Actors

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