Gemma Bovery

Gemma Bovery is a 2014 French comedy-drama film based on Posy Simmonds' 1999 graphic novel of the same name. Directed by Anne Fontaine, the film stars Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Mel Raido and Fabrice Luchini. The film premiered at the 2014 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême on 24 August 2014, and showed in the Special Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2014. Plot Martin, an ex-Parisian with a deep appreciation for Gustave Flaubert, has settled in a village in Normandy as a baker. He sees a British couple moving into an old property across the road. Their names, Gemma and Charles Bovery, echo those of the leading characters in Flaubert's 1856 masterpiece Madame Bovary. Martin engages with the young couple and observes that Gemma's behaviour replicates that of her namesake, including romantic and sexual liaisons that suggest she is headed for a tragic finale like that of the novel. He intervenes but cannot alter the inevitable. Cast Fabrice Luchini as Martin Joubert Gemma Arterton as Gemma Bovery Jason Flemyng as Charlie Bovery, Gemma's new husband Mel Raido as Patrick, Gemma's ex-boyfriend and a charming food critic Isabelle Candelier as Valérie Joubert Niels Schneider as Hervé de Bressigny Elsa Zylberstein as Wizzy Pip Torrens as Rankin Kacey Mottet Klein as Julien Joubert Édith Scob as Madame de Bressigny Pascale Arbillot as The new neighbor