instal the new version for mac Madame Bovary

Feng, who also directed the 2008 romantic comedy “If You Are the One,” a megablockbuster in his native land, muffs it with his labored approach.In 1857, French author Gustave Flaubert is ordered to stand trial to defend accusations that his novel, Madame Bovary, is 'an outrage against public morals and established customs.' During the trial, prosecutors argue that the subject of the book, Emma Bovary, is a 'disgrace to France and an insult to womanhood,' and that the book should be banned for its indecency. She is subsequently jilted by her husband. Its heroine, Li Xuelian (Fan Bingbing), is seeking a divorce so she can claim a second apartment the Chinese government has decreed available to only single people. Feng doesn’t use the circular frame to any particular visual end.

Wes Anderson pulled this sort of thing off well in “The Grand Budapest Hotel” here, the formal high jinks just grate, especially given that Mr. So is the movie’s visual mode, which stays in a circular frame for much of the picture, changing to a narrow square frame for some scenes, and finally expanding to a wide-screen frame in the last 10 minutes. Then the narrator tells us that this movie’s heroine will be moved to protest, “I am no Pan Jinlian.” Then the English-language title appears, accompanied by these words, in parentheses: “Like Madame Bovary, Pan Jinlian is known for her extramarital affairs.” Over a series of paintings in circular frames, a narrator tells of the mythic Chinese character Pan Jinlian, an adulteress whose name is still invoked in modern China to chastise an “indecent” woman. It begins with the movie’s English-language title. But appreciating it, and the other points of interest in the movie, requires a perhaps unusual amount of patience, or even indulgence.

There’s some intriguing social commentary in the Chinese comedic melodrama “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” an adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s novel of the same name, directed by Feng Xiaogang.

Instal the new version for mac Madame Bovary