PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Cinematographer Andrij Parekh’s latest work was the 2014 film “Madame Bovary,” that was filmed in the United Kingdom and Belgium and released in the U.S. on June 12. “Madame Bovary” is distributed in the United States by Millennium Entertainment. In Canada, it was released on July 3.
Starring Paul Giamatti (Cold Souls), Olivier Gourmet, Ezra Miller, Rhys Ifans, and in the title role, Mia Wasikowska, “Madame Bovary” is based on the 1856 novel by Gustave Flaubert. The story traces the life of a bookish country girl who marries a dull doctor to escape the rural life on her father’s pig farm in France. She soon seeks love affairs as a means to ascend the social ladder, only to see herself fall from that ladder from a higher rung.
Directed by Sophie Barthes (“Cold Souls” also filmed by Mr. Parekh), Michele Maheux of the Toronto International Film Festival, stated: “…Every frame is flush with beauty, every gesture weighted with meaning. With sumptuous production design by Benoit Barouh (“The Vertical Ray of the Sun”) and cinematography by Andrij Parekh (“Blue Valentine”), the film constructs an evocation of 19th century France that’s utterly transporting.”
Mr. Parekh is of Ukrainian and Indian descent, and graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the FAMU film school in Prague. He currently lives in New York.
Other projects by Mr. Parekh include “Mississippi Grind” (2015) about a pair who lose their money in their gambling pursuits across the U.S. South; a 6-episode HBO television mini-series called “Show Me a Hero”; and “The Zookeeper’s Wife” (2016), set in Poland about Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
For more information about Mr. Parekh and his latest work, readers may visit Mr. Parekh’s website, www.andrijparekh.com.