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  1. 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 ...

  2. Dec 25, 1991 · Madame Bovary: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne. In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • Claude Chabrol
    • 1991-12-25
  3. Madame Bovary ( / ˈboʊvəri /; [1] French: [madam bɔvaʁi] ), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners ( French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ (s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s] ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape ...

    • 1856 (in serial) & April 1857 (in book form)
    • Realist novel
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  5. Dec 25, 1991 · The story is well-known. Emma, daughter of a prosperous local landowner, marries Charles Bovary, the region's doctor (Jean-Francois Balmer). She does it basically to get off her father's farm. Bovary moves her into town and provides her with a good house, nice clothes and mindless devotion. But she is discontented.

  6. Dec 25, 1991 · Jennifer Jones, the Emma in Vincente Minnelli's stylish and glossy 1949 M-G-M adaptation, is virtually the image of the woman described in the novel. Yet she is somewhat too innocent to be ...

    • David Greenwalt, Aaron Russo
  7. Film Synopsis. I n 19th century France, Charles Bovary is a country doctor who, after the death of his first wife, does not delay in marrying the daughter of one of his patients, Emma Rouault. All too soon, Emma becomes bored with her new life and yearns for the romance she reads about in novels.

  8. Emma Rouault (Isabelle Huppert), a beautiful young woman who craves romance and luxury, marries warmhearted but unfashionable doctor Charles Bovary (Jean-François Balmer). After attending a ...

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    • Drama, Romance
    • PG-13
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