If you loved State and Main, try Gemma Bovery

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Theyboth carry the outsider mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to State and Main, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Gemma Bovery is

Here's a film about literary types who can't help seeing literature everywhere. A baker fixates on his new neighbors, an English couple named Gemma and Charles Bovery, deciding they're living out *Madame Bovary* in real life. Perhaps he should have baked more bread.

If you loved State and Main, try Gemma Bovery

State and Main

Gemma Bovery

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What Gemma Bovery is

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If you loved State and Main, try Gemma Bovery

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What Gemma Bovery is

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