Gemma Bovery - A summer with Flaubert
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gemma Bovery - A summer with Flaubert |
| Original title | Gemma Bovery |
| Country of production |
France , UK |
| original language |
French , English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anne Fontaine |
| script |
Pascal Bonitzer , Anne Fontaine |
| production |
Philippe Carcassonne , Matthieu Tarot , Sidonie Dumas , Francis Boespflug |
| music | Bruno Coulais |
| camera | Christophe Beaucarne |
| cut | Annette Dutertre |
| occupation | |
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Gemma Bovery - A Summer with Flaubert (Original title: Gemma Bovery ) is a French-English feature film from 2014 . It is based on the graphic novel Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds , published in 1999. Directed by Anne Fontaine . The writer wrote Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine.
action
Martin Joubert returned to the village in Normandy where he grew up seven years ago, where he took over his father's bakery and now runs it with his wife Valérie. The Englishmen Charles and Gemma Bovery, who previously lived in London, have moved into an old house in the Jouberts neighborhood. Charles Bovery is a restorer, his wife Gemma is a painter. She does small renovations in her house and repaints the rooms.
Martin meets Gemma regularly when they walk their dogs. He is passionate about world literature, and the similarity of the names of the newly arrived English couple with the names of Emma and Charles Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary gives him the idea that there may also be analogies in life between Gemma Bovery and Flaubert's heroine gives.
Gemma struggles to get used to the shortcomings in the house: it's cold and damp, the roof has leaks, and the power goes out occasionally. But most of all, she is frightened when a mouse walks around. She buys arsenic to poison the mice, in which the terrified Martin sees a further parallel to Flaubert's novel, but above all a danger for her little dog. Martin implores Gemma to remove the poison from her house.
The student Hervé de Bressigny, who has to study for his law exam, lives temporarily in the nearby castle. He meets Gemma near the castle, later in the village market and a third time in the supermarket. At the third meeting he invites her to visit him. She accepts the invitation and lets him show her the lock. The two begin a love affair. At the next rendezvous, the Cupid , a valuable Sèvres porcelain figure, falls to the ground while making love, causing her head to break off. Gemma reassures Hervé that it doesn't matter, her husband will repair the figure and takes the damaged statuette with her.
Gemma receives a letter in which Hervé, completely surprising, asks her to forget him and says goodbye. The letter bears Hervé's signature, but in reality Martin wrote it to separate the two lovers. Gemma is disturbed and tries several times to call Hervé, but he cannot take the calls. In the meantime his mother, Madame Florence de Bressigny, has arrived and tells him to his conscience that he must study seriously for his exam. In addition, she misses her dear Cupid. Hervé tries to calm her down by explaining that the porcelain figure is only slightly damaged and is currently being repaired by an expert English restorer.
Madame de Bressigny visits Charles Bovery. Her son gave him a very valuable porcelain figure from Sèvres for repair. Charles replies that he doesn't know her son and that he doesn't have a china figure. Charles later asks Gemma if the name Bressigny means anything to her. She says no. He insists that Madame de Bressigny spoke of a figure that he was supposed to fix, whether Gemma knew anything about it. Again she denies and adds that she wants to talk to him. But Charles refuses, he doesn't want to hear anything. She ignored him for weeks. He packs his suitcase. When Gemma asked where he was going and when he was coming back, Charles replied that he didn't know and drove away in the taxi.
Hervé has to return to Paris with his mother. He promises Gemma to write to her. Madame de Bressigny's lawyer writes a letter to the Boverys asking them to surrender the missing porcelain figure. Gemma asks Martin to accompany her to the lawyer. Martin waits for them in the cathedral in Rouen , but Gemma does not appear. As he steps out of the cathedral, he sees Gemma getting out of her car. She is in the company of her former friend Patrick, who has separated from his wife and is now stalking Gemma again. Gemma breaks away from him.
Back home, Gemma finds Cupid in the storage room. Charles fixed it perfectly without her knowledge. She speaks on Charles' cell phone that she has found the porcelain figure. She misses him, wants to see him again, and she loves him. Charles listens to her message and is pleased to respond.
Martin urges Gemma not to do anything she would regret. He reminds her that everything that happened to Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel happened to her too. Gemma strongly contradicts: she has no intention of killing herself, she is not Madame Bovary, she is capable of being happy.
Although he was turned away, Patrick visits Gemma at home. He persuades them that they can be happy together, that he will change. While he continues to bother her, Gemma eats the big bread that Martin baked especially for her. With the second bite, she chokes and can no longer breathe. Patrick takes her from behind and tries to push the bite of bread back up her throat by rhythmically pressing her stomach. At that moment Charles comes home and hears Gemma's screams. He misunderstands Patrick's rescue efforts as an erotic approach to his wife, tears him away from Gemma and fights with him. When the two men let go of each other, Gemma suffocated.
After the funeral, Martin, Charles and Patrick leave the cemetery together. Each of the three men is of the opinion that he is to blame for Gemma's death.
New tenants move into the empty house in winter. They're French, but according to Joubert's son, it's Russians who are supposedly called Karenin. Joubert goes over at once, greets the young woman with the heavy blond braids, praises her accent-free French and asks her if she knows the novel Anna Karenina .
synchronization
The German dubbing was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron . The dialogue book was written by Marina Köhler , who also directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Joubert | Fabrice Luchini | Stephan Schwartz |
| Valérie Joubert | Isabelle Candelier | Elisabeth von Koch |
| Gemma Bovery | Gemma Arterton | Annina Braunmiller |
| Charlie Bovery | Jason Flemyng | Thomas Loibl |
| Julien Joubert | Kacey Mottet Klein | Karim El Kammouchi |
| Doctor Rivière | Philippe Uchan | Matthias Copper |
| Hervé de Bressigny | Niels Schneider | Max fields |
| Madame de Bressigny | Edith Scob | Heidi Treutler |
| New neighbor | Pascale Arbillot | Alisa Palmer |
| Patrick | Mel Raido | Jakob Riedl |
| Rankin | Pip Torrens | David Michael Williamson |
| Wizzy | Elsa Zylberstein | Claudia Lössl |
background
The theatrical release in Germany was on September 18, 2014. The film had previously been shown at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival .
Web links
- Gemma Bovery - A summer with Flaubert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A summer with Flaubert at film-rezensions.de
- A summer with Flaubert - Gemma Bovery at kinofilmwelt.de
- Review of Gemma Bovery at epd-film.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Gemma Bovery - A summer with Flaubert . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 865 K).
- ↑ Gemma Bovery - A summer with Flaubert. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 2, 2019 .