Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A romantic busybody in Normandy becomes convinced a newly arrived English expat will end up just like her literary near-homonym in ...

Based on a graphic novel, this updating of Madame Bovary almost manages to maintain its feather-light touch in spite of the heavy source material. French director Anne Fontaine's Gemma Bovery is a ...

Martin Joubert is profoundly bored. A humble baker in a small Normandy town, he has little to occupy his days. His wife doesn’t like him much and his teenage son has disappeared into hoodies and ...

Many British actors often feel trapped behind period pieces, with their difficult costumes and restrictive mannerisms, but that’s not an issue facing Gemma Arterton in this classic literary update.

Posy Simmonds couldn’t have had actress Gemma Arterton in mind when she wrote “Gemma Bovery,” her darkly comic 1999 spoof of Gustav Flaubert’s classic 19th-century novel “Madame Bovary,” about a bored ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Let’s say that a couple named Tom and Daisy Buchanan move in next door. Do you assume that their life will unfold just like the identically named characters ...

Gustav Flaubert’s tragic 1857 novel “Madame Bovary” revolves around a bored provincial wife named Emma, who has a series of affairs, with tragic consequences. When Posy Simmonds published “Gemma ...

So, you’re a literature-loving editor-turned-baker (Fabrice Luchini), relocated from Paris to a pastoral village in Normandy, and possibly a little bit bored. One day, you notice a pair of new ...

Martin is living a rather mundane life in the Northern France, operating a bakery in a small quaint village. He has an attentive but rather shrewish wife and a teenage son, but they don’t really ...

Amid all the graphic novel adaptations about superheroes, here comes “Gemma Bovery” (based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel of the same name), whose hero is anything but super. As the title suggests, ...

French director Anne Fontaine's Gemma Bovery is a comic reworking of Madame Bovary, but that's merely the first of the movie's several layers. The bilingual film is adapted not from Flaubert's classic ...

Oh, how I rued my failed foreign-language skills in the opening moments of Gemma Bovery. Who wants to read subtitles when a French baker is rolling out such pliant, such pokeable, such heavenly ...