The Emma Bovary Trial

Film

The Emma Bovary Trial

France
Director
Audrey Gordon
Year
2021

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.

Top cast

Directed by

Audrey Gordon

Written by

Émilie Musset, Audrey Gordon

Produced by

Carine Ruszniewski