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By Hannah Mcgill (136) for The List (2,018) on 21 May 2017

As plots go, it's on the Byzantine side - and director Feng Xiaogang renders things still more elaborate with an unusual visual style that…

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By Nicholas H (392) on 02 May 2017

Bold and beautiful, and surprisingly funny…

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By Amanda C (916) on 16 Apr 2017

A misguided, claustrophobic vignette takes away from the power of the story and the performances…

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By Luis Martínez (274) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 13 Mar 2017

What the director proposes is a satire on the bureaucracy of his country that intrigues, baffles and, finally, fascinates. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Jordi Costa (207) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 13 Mar 2017

Xiaogang plays with formats, always at the service of a story so powerful that transcends the distance that encourage its forms…

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By Miguel Muñoz Garnica (22) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 13 Mar 2017

Beyond the obvious association with the rural versus the urban, it only adds chaos to the whole, failing to reach a connotative dimension that…

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By Paula Arantzazu Ruiz (61) for Sensacine (386) on 08 Mar 2017

Its purpose works when the film laughs at the characters and even of itself but wobbles in some transitions that lengthen an already dilated…

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By Curtis Cook (17) for Willamette Week (516) on 27 Feb 2017

Puzzlingly, the movie rarely inhabits the entirety of the screen…

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By Emily Steele (2) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 18 Feb 2017

I Am Not Madame Bovary is a tongue-in-cheek criticism of Chinese politics, as well as their view of women and sexuality…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for ArtsHub (131) on 03 Dec 2016

Feng proves as meticulous yet slyly playful in his aesthetic decisions as he does in his story…

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By Drew M (571) on 22 Nov 2016

There's a fine central performance by Fan, but the satire, while funny at times, gets repetitive in this overlong movie…

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By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 21 Nov 2016

A Kafkaesque tale about the Chinese bureaucracy's indifference to the people's legal rights…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Nov 2016

Original, demanding and disarmingly rewarding, this women's film is a significant achievement for director Feng Xiaogang…

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By Izziecc L (1) on 21 Nov 2016

The sarcasm is not sharp enough with the mild description of Chinese bureaucracy. Fortunately, however, Lian is a strong protagnist…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 20 Nov 2016

It will not give anything away if I say that Lian's real story is not revealed until the end and it is quite touching and genuine in its emotion…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 18 Nov 2016

What remains is a fascinating, Kafkaesque portrayal of justice (or lack thereof) in modern China, but it's no knee-slapper and, at more than…

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By Mallory Andrews (58) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 18 Nov 2016

I refer to Feng Xiaogang's class comedy I Am Not Madame Bovary as painterly, in which Feng's studied use of unconventional aspect ratios are…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Nov 2016

The [circle frame] device has the added benefit of focusing our attention where it counts...the miniaturized view allowing for exquisite production…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 18 Nov 2016

130-plus minutes is a long time to wait for a glimpse of what someone is, rather than what she's not…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 18 Nov 2016

I Am Madame Bovary plays out as a comedy, a lampoon of the incompetence and laziness of government officials…

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