I Am Not Madame Bovary's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Daily
Despite its sourness on Chinese politics ? sexual or otherwise - I Am Not Madame Bovary has a sublime visual elegance, telling its story much of the time with wondrous pictorial effects in a round frame that feels like a magnifying glass.
The Washington Post
Although it?s intended as a satire, director Feng Xiaogang?s movie has a literary tone, a leisurely pace and relatively few laugh-out-loud moments.
Los Angeles Times
The shapes are a distraction. However, what?s happening within them is compelling enough to overcome the stylistic overkill. Nothing could diminish Fan Bingbing's performance as the lead.
Variety
Long, relatively low-key but always engaging, I Am Not Madame Bovary wears its expansive scale lightly.
The Hollywood Reporter
The sarcasm of superstar director Feng Xiaogang reduces Chinese bureaucracy, the legal system and government inefficiency to ashes in 'I Am Not Madame Bovary', but risks doing the same for audiences in a caustic, overlong satire whose coy visual effects overpower the story and characters.
New York Times
There?s some intriguing social commentary in the Chinese comedic melodrama ?I Am Not Madame Bovary,? (...) and the other points of interest in the movie, requires a perhaps unusual amount of patience, or even indulgence.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote