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I Am Not Madame Bovary

I Am Not Madame Bovary
Directed byFeng XiaogangWritten byLiu ZhenyunBased on
I Did Not Kill My Husband
by Liu Zhenyun
Produced byHu Xiao Feng (also written Hu Xiaofeng)StarringFan BingbingNarrated byFeng XiaogangCinematographyLuo PanEdited byWilliam ChangMusic byDu Wei
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Release dates
  • 8 September 2016 (2016-09-08) (TIFF)
  • 18 November 2016 (2016-11-18) (China)
Running time
137 minutesCountryChinaLanguageMandarinBox officeUS$70.8 million

I Am Not Pan Jinlian (Chinese: 我不是潘金莲), known in English as I Am Not Madame Bovary, is a 2016 Chinese comedy drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and written by Liu Zhenyun, based on Liu's 2012 novel I Did Not Kill My Husband. Starring Fan Bingbing in the lead role, it was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. and won the award for Best Achievement in Directing (Feng Xiaogang) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It was released in China on 18 November 2016.