directed by Sophie Barthes (COLD SOULS) from a screenplay by Rose Barrenche & Sophie Barthes, who adapted Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel Madame Bovary.
The passionate drama tells the tragic story of Emma (Wasikowska), a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor to leave her father’s pig farm behind. But after being introduced to the glamorous world of high society, she soon becomes bored with her stodgy mate and seeks excitement and status outside the bonds of marriage.
The Occupant Entertainment production is produced by Joe Neurauter & Felipe Marino (BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY, THE WACKNESS) in association with Aden Films’ Sophie Barthes and Aleph Motion Picture’s Jaime Mateus-Tique with financing coming from film financing specialist Prescience (THE KING’S SPEECH) with Tim Smith and Paul Brett taking Executive Producer credits, Belgian’s SCOPE Pictures with Genevieve Lemal taking Co-producer credit, Left Field Ventures’ John Engel taking Co-producer credit and Germany’s A Company Filmed Entertainment with Alexander van Duelmen and Kai Kuenneman taking Co-producer credit, the latter company, which was most recently involved in CLOUD ATLAS, will also distribute the film all over Eastern Europe and Vietnam in late 2014 through its distribution arms and partners.
MADAME BOVARY stars Mia Wasikowska (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, JANE EYRE), Ezra Miller (THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN), Academy-Award nominee Paul Giamatti (CINDERELLA MAN, SIDEWAYS), Rhys Ifans (THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) Henry Lloyd-Hughes (HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, ANNA KARENINA), Logan Marshall-Green (PROMETHEUS), Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Winner and Cesar Award nominee Olivier Gourmet (THE SON) and Laura Carmichael (“Downton Abbey”).
The producers have assembled a top-notch below the line filmmaking team including director of photography Andrij Parekh (BLUE VALENTINE), production designer Benoît Barouh (RENOIR), four-time Cesar-award winning costume designer Christian Gasc and Valerie Ranchoux (FAREWELL, MY QUEEN), editor Mikkel Nielsen (A ROYAL AFFAIR) and composer Evgueni Galperine (THE PAST, Luc Besson’s THE FAMILY).
