2016 ["Feng Xiaogang"]

I Am Not Madame Bovary

Name: I Am Not Madame Bovary
Genre: [, ", d, r, m
Released: 2016
Rating: 6.9

★ 6.9 IMDb

Li Xuelian, a woman from the countryside is falsely accused by her husband of having an affair. To defend herself, Li moves from her small town to the big city until she reached the capital.

Essays and Criticism

On this film

A Multifaceted Satire of Politics and Bureaucracy by Neta Alexander, FIPRESCI I Am Not Madame Bovary (China, Feng Xiaogang) by Shelly Kraicer, Cinema Scope

In conversation with other films

More Than Black and White by Holger Römers, FIPRESCI

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