Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Overwhelmed by monotony and the sense of meaninglessness, Emilia retreats steadily further away from her role as a mother, and housewife. She regrets the life she has lived. The joy and hope brought to Emilia by her secret lover are fading as well.
Overwhelmed by monotony and the sense of meaninglessness, Emilia retreats steadily further away from her role as a mother, and housewife. She regrets the life she has lived. The joy and hope brought to Emilia by her secret lover are fading as well.
Working with his long-term screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego once again, Arturo Ripstein (The Realm of Fortune, Deep Crimson) proves a perfect filmmaker to reinterpret Flaubert’s Madame Bovary—modernising the tragic masterpiece by relocating its action to contemporary Mexico.