The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)

6.8/10 53 min Documentary History TV Movie

Overview

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.

Cast

Natalia Dontcheva

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jacques Rancière

Self - Philosopher

Karl Ove Knausgård

Self - Writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

Self - Writer

Nathalie Sarraute

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Maurice Nadeau

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Julian Barnes

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Isabelle Huppert

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Mia Wasikowska

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Sophie Barthes

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Jean Renoir

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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