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Madame Bovary is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the 1857 novel Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert . Set in Normandy in the 1850s, the film follows the story of Emma Bovary, an attractive young woman full of romantic notions, whose marriage to an unexciting country doctor leads her to adulterous ...
- 3 April 1991
- Marin Karmitz
- Jean-Michel Bernard, Matthieu Chabrol, Maurice Coignard
Dec 25, 1991 · 1 Video. 15 Photos. Drama Romance. In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts. Director. Claude Chabrol. Writers. Gustave Flaubert. Claude Chabrol. Stars.
- (4.3K)
- Drama, Romance
- Claude Chabrol
- 1991-12-25
Dec 25, 1991 · Madame Bovary. Madame Emma Bovary is one of the two or three most famous characters in French literature - but for her attitude more than for anything she says or does. She is famed for the vain romantic longings that were all that stirred her selfish and shallow personality.
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Plot. In an 1850s Paris courtroom, author Gustave Flaubert attempts to prevent the banning of his novel Madame Bovary. His accusers have described the book's title character as shocking and immoral. Flaubert counters with a narration of Bovary's story from his own realist perspective.
- August 25, 1949 (New York)
- Pandro S. Berman
Dec 21, 2023 · Plot. Facing spinsterhood on her widowed father's farm Emma, with the help of her father, is successful in attracting and contracting a marriage with the local doctor, whose wife has recently died. Charles Bovary is kindly and conscientious, but lacks assertiveness and is a dull conversationalist.
Emma Rouault (Isabelle Huppert), a beautiful young woman who craves romance and luxury, marries warmhearted but unfashionable doctor Charles Bovary (Jean-François Balmer).
- (16)
- Drama, Romance
- PG-13
Apr 3, 1991 · Overview. Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered. Claude Chabrol.
