- MADAM BOVARY
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| Mia Wasikowska |
Alice in Wonderland and Jane Eyre star Mia Wasikowska will
play the title role in Madame Bovary, reports Variety. Sophie Barthes (Cold
Souls) will direct from a screenplay by Rose Barreneche. The film is based on
the 1856 novel by Gustave Flaubert.
The trade says that "Wasikowska will play the lead role
of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor who she married to
escape her father's pig farm. She constantly tries to climb the social ladder
by engaging in extra-marital affairs.
Paul Giamatti, who toplined Barthes' Cold Souls, will play
Monsieur Homais, "the town apothecary who is a close confidant of her
husband Charles and threatens to reveal the protag's steamy
indiscretions."
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