MADAME BOVARY

Gustave Flaubert

After seeing the restored version of Usmar Ismail’s Lewat Djam Malam, I realized that Emma Bovary and Laila share the same tragic failing: both longing to transcend their world but fail miserably because they pin the wrong things on their Pinterest ancien’s boards.

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