I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)

Original title

我不是潘金莲

Directed by

Feng Xiaogang

Genre

drama film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

2h 17m

Rated

14A

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman refuses to accept a divorce from her husband that she says was fake. She spends years petitioning the government to set things right, leading her into a bureaucratic maze that never ends.

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What happens

I Am Not Pan Jinlian (Chinese: 我不是潘金莲), known in English as I Am Not Madame Bovary, is a 2016 Chinese comedy drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and written by Liu Zhenyun, based on Liu's 2012 novel I Did Not Kill My Husband. Starring Fan Bingbing in the lead role, it was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. and won the award for Best Achievement in Directing (Feng Xiaogang) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It was released in China on 18 November 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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