The Emma Bovary Trial
2021 · Released · 52 min
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.
Who is in it. Open anyone to see what else they are in.
Natalia Dontcheva
Self - Narrator (voice)
Vincent Sacripanti
Self - Narrator (voice)
Tiago Gomes Rodrigues
Self - Playwright
Catherine Millet
Self - Writer
Jacques Rancière
Self - Philosopher
Karl Ove Knausgård
Self - Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa
Self - Writer
Régis Jauffret
Self - Writer
Nathalie Sarraute
Self - Writer (archive footage)
Maurice Nadeau
Self - Writer (archive footage)
Julian Barnes
Self - Writer (archive footage)
Isabelle Huppert
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Mia Wasikowska
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Sophie Barthes
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Jean Renoir
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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