On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
Natalia Dontcheva
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Vincent Sacripanti
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tiago Gomes Rodrigues
as Self - Playwright
Catherine Millet
as Self - Writer
Jacques Rancière
as Self - Philosopher
Karl Ove Knausgård
as Self - Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa
as Self - Writer
Régis Jauffret
as Self - Writer
Nathalie Sarraute
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
Maurice Nadeau
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
Julian Barnes
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
Isabelle Huppert
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
