By Emma Jones Entertainment reporter, BBC News 20 August 2015 From the section Entertainment & Arts Arterton says her near-namesake Gemma Bovery is "just not ready to settle down" The daydream of many affluent Londoners is to trade the treadmill of city life for an idyllic existence in rural France. It's a scenario that's brought to life in Gemma Bovery, a re-imagining of Gustave Flaubert's 19th Century classic Madame Bovary. Gemma Arterton, who was born in Kent and who, until this production, did not speak a word of French, takes the title role of naive young Londoner Gemma who, with her older husband Charles, moves to Normandy, just a few miles from where Flaubert's book is set. Since...
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