by Sherilyn Connelly Memo to Music Box Films, distributors of Anne Fontaine's comedy Gemma Bovery: Your press release refers to the film as "a cheeky literary mash-up" without saying what two things it mashes up. Yes, the movie an adaptation of a graphic novel which is itself a riff on Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, but that itself does not a mashup make -- nor, unfortunately, does an entirely satisfying film does Gemma Bovery make.... [
by Sherilyn Connelly Memo to Music Box Films, distributors of Anne Fontaine's comedy Gemma Bovery: Your press release refers to the film as "a cheeky literary mash-up" without saying what two things it mashes up. Yes, the movie an adaptation of a graphic novel which is itself a riff on Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, but that itself does not a mashup make -- nor, unfortunately, does an entirely satisfying film does Gemma Bovery make.... [
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