Mia Wasikowska is sublime. Some people probably dislike the Mona Lisa - forget trying to explain to them what you find special.

The choice of "White Rabbit", having Pink perform it (and actually do justice to the song) is so obviously on-spot that it seems like a no-brainer - its perfect. This is what's meant by psychedlic. This movie comes off like a family-friendly drug experience. What would Walt think?

Yes, her character Agatha was psychotic and deadly, yet sincere and sympathetic. I loved her scenes with Julianne Moore - they were playing such opposites - that film is a genre hybrid for sure. Cronenberg is twisted, in a brilliant way. "Madame Bovary" is a book I've read many times (maybe my all time favorite) - I…

Mia's amazing - it depends on the role she's playing whether it's restrained or not (what she is, is naturalistic). Her performance in the first season of HBO's "In Treatment" is fantastic - "Jane Eyre", "Stoker" also wonderful but in a totally different way - "Only Lovers Left Alive" and "Tracks", complete opposites,…

A really well written, intelligent piece that recognizes a lot of the inner workings of this movie, and the genre its exploring. I felt I was watching a classic film adaptation of a classic book, but one that was never actually written. The movie has played in my imagination as much as it played on the screen.

Yes, he used Steegmuller and he also translated large sections himself which he used in his teaching of the work - he was a bit of a perfectionist, which I'm sure you already know. The Davis translation is excellent. If you or anyone else finds they're bitten by the Bovary Bug, even though she can be maddening, there…

Yes, which translation of Madame Bovary? For years I favored Francis Steegmuller's, I also enjoy Lydia Davis' 2010 translation, they are different, but I find them both strong. I've recently read Adam Thorpe's 2011 translation and I'm very impressed with it - he is a novelist, and he's also a poet, which is important…

Good points. Yeah, Nabokov was a real student of Madame Bovary and Flaubert. I've read M.B. multiple times, and the story and Emma seem to take on different aspects with each reading. I've felt anger and disgust for her, but I've also felt tenderness and sympathy - it's possible to feel all these things at once for a…

I agree with everything you wrote, I feel sorry for Charles, too. Definitely, Emma was self-destructive - sex, money and religion were all things that she used as substitutes for fulfillment, but I still felt for her. Unlike any other character in the book she was reaching for something beyond the hum drum existence -…

Hmmm … someone on here who reads - yeah, it's NOT Jane Austin. Madame Bovary links sex, money and religion. Madame B. is spinning out of control as she drives up her debt and fires up her bedroom activity, while giving society the finger - but you gotta love her, I know I do.