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Madame Bovary (1991) -- In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)...

Overview

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Director:
Claude Chabrol
Writers:
Claude Chabrol (writer)
Gustave Flaubert (novel)
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Release Date:
25 December 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Over-economical screenmake of a literary classic more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Isabelle Huppert ... Emma Bovary
Jean-François Balmer ... Le docteur Charles Bovary
Christophe Malavoy ... Rodolphe Boulanger
Jean Yanne ... M. Homais - le pharmacien
Lucas Belvaux ... Leon Dupuis
Christiane Minazzoli ... La veuve Lefançois
Jean-Louis Maury ... Merchant Lheureux
Florent Gibassier ... Hippolyte
Jean-Claude Bouillaud ... Le père Rouault - un paysan - le père d'Emma
Sabeline Campo ... Felicité
Yves Verhoeven ... Justin
Marie Mergey ... La mère Bovary - la mère de Charles
François Maistre ... Lieuvain - le conseiller de la préfecture

Thomas Chabrol ... Le vicomte
Phillippe Abitol
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Additional Details

Runtime:
143 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
In its original French version, one of the masculine voices overheard by Emma during the great Bail sequence is director Claude Chabrol's voice saying: "Mais qu'il en soit fait selon votre desir, ma chere... Lucien!". more
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Referenced in Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Les voix du printemps opus 410 more

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4 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Over-economical screenmake of a literary classic, 3 February 2003
Author: Framescourer from London, UK

Just finished watching this film on VHS after a long search of London libraries. Disappointed, but first the good stuff... Huppert does the soul-wrent-in-twain-through-moral-confusion well. The others in the cast are unknown to me but do a better job than on the made for TV version (BBC 2002) simply because they are French (don't live day to day with ironing boards for spines). The costuming is beautiful - this is important to twist the knife as Emma's debt becomes incommutable. The bad stuff - the direction. Or lack of it. La Ceremonie is the only Chabrol film I can remember worth seeing; this film is not as bad as the recent zzz-worth Merci pour le Chocolat... there's French filmmaking and there's unabashed pretension and that film is the latter. The continuity in Bovary is sloppy as is the sound editing (although Chabrol's brother's score's OK). The final straw is Huppert's inability to find some of the naivete that is so engaging in, say, Heaven's Gate. The latter part of the film is good - it's as if her scheming to avoid the fate she is preparing for herself increases the fall she succumbs to. But at the beginning, she's the same character... there's no preparation for a transformation. And WHY - WHY OH WHY does this production insist on white sub-titles? It's such a cheap error! 5/10... buy lots of popcorm.

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