Madame Bovary

...interesting viewing, not least for Mia Wasikowska’s fish-out-of-water heroine; a crabby valley girl in rural Normandy.

Isabelle Huppert is a great movie star, but of a type that could not flourish in Hollywood because her greatness is in her secrets, not her surfaces.

Stunningly produced adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's controversial (at the time) novel, directed skillfully by Minnelli.

...it’s a relief to see how strenuously Barthes works to avoid “explaining” Emma’s behavior, and how willing both she and Wasikowska are to risk having the character come across as spoiled.