Madame Bovary

Gorgeous cinematography and costumes highlight this captivating, well-acted, tragic, cameo-dotted (Paul Giamatti and Laura Carmichael), 118-minute, 2014 film based on Gustave Flaubert's classic 1856 novel in which an unhappy, stifled, ambitious, shallow wife (Mia Wasikowska) of a kindhearted, but boorish small-town doctor (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) in 19th century France "digs her own grave" as she desperately tries to find happiness in extramarital affairs with a charming marquis (Logan Marshall-Green) and a smitten law clerk (Erza Miller) and then recklessly spends money that her husband does not have with a manipulative, calculating local merchant (Ryhs Ifans) on extravagant clothing and house furnishings.
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