{"id":18429,"date":"2026-03-05T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18429"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:46:45","slug":"i-am-not-madame-bovary-2016-feng-xiaogang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18429","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched this for its circular frames and I had an enjoyable time.  The title is a translation quirk, the English-language equivalent of a notorious cheater, but movie is based on the novel <em>I Did Not Kill My Husband<\/em> which would&#8217;ve been catchier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/bovary1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/i-am-not-madame-bovary-the-heroine-of-this-uneven-chin-1798189511\">Mike D&#8217;Angelo<\/a> compares it to the Zhang Yimou movies, and that checks out.  Bingbing Fan (best known as a tax criminal, also 17th-billed in an <em>X-Men<\/em> movie) fake-divorces her husband as a real-estate scheme, and when he goes off with another woman instead of remarrying her, she pesters the government for decades (until his death) trying to get the fake-divorce reversed.  By the end all the government officials are new people because she got their predecessors fired, and nobody knows how to stop this woman from causing a scene every year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beijing:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/bovary2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Mayor was in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10741\">Touch of Sin<\/a><\/em>, her &#8220;cousin&#8221; Wang in <em>Hidden Blade<\/em>, seducer\/traitor\/rapist Datou was Andy&#8217;s rival cop in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8877\">Blind Detective<\/a><\/em>, and the court guy who hired the seducer starred in <em>Cliff Walkers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/bovary3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched this for its circular frames and I had an enjoyable time. The title is a translation quirk, the English-language equivalent of a notorious cheater, but movie is based on the novel I Did Not Kill My Husband which would&#8217;ve been catchier. Mike D&#8217;Angelo compares it to the Zhang Yimou movies, and that checks out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,200,3470],"class_list":["post-18429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-china","tag-feng-xiaogang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18472,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429\/revisions\/18472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}