Bingbing heads a terrific ensemble, although the sly anti-bureaucratic fun does feel a little overextended at 137mins.

The film is uneven and lagging in pace. Still, it's frequently beautiful ...

A film that luxuriates, through that beguiling round frame, in breathtaking, never-seen-before screen imagery.

I Am Not Madame Bovary brilliantly executes its high-concept, formal experimentation perfectly. In doing so, it embodies a vision that harmonizes the theoretical with the actual.