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Release Date:
25 December 1991 (USA)
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Plot:
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)...
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(85 articles)
Gaumont Books Fontaine’s ‘Bovary’ Update
(From Variety - Film News. 16 May 2013, 1:58 PM, PDT)
Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom
(From The Guardian - TV News. 3 May 2013, 4:06 PM, PDT)
'In the House' review: French teen becomes a writer by observing what happens
(From Pop2it. 2 May 2013, 5:58 AM, PDT)
(From Variety - Film News. 16 May 2013, 1:58 PM, PDT)
Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom
(From The Guardian - TV News. 3 May 2013, 4:06 PM, PDT)
'In the House' review: French teen becomes a writer by observing what happens
(From Pop2it. 2 May 2013, 5:58 AM, PDT)
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An impossible task?
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Cast
(in credits order) (verified as complete)
Directed by | |||
| Claude Chabrol | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Gustave Flaubert | (based on the novel by) | |
| Claude Chabrol | (adaptation and dialogue) | |
Produced by | |||
| Marin Karmitz | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Jean-Michel Bernard | |||
| Matthieu Chabrol | |||
| M.J. Coignard-Helison | (as Maurice Coignard) | ||
Cinematography by | |||
| Jean Rabier | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Monique Fardoulis | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Michèle Abbé-Vannier | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Jacques Mollon | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Corinne Jorry | |||
Production Management | |||
| Yvon Crenn | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Cécile Maistre | .... | assistant director | |
| Alain Wermus | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Jean-René Coulon | .... | property master | |
| Serge Le Puil | .... | property buyer (as Serge Le Puyl) | |
Sound Department | |||
| Brigitte Grynblat | .... | sound editor | |
| André Naudin | .... | foley artist | |
| Gadou Naudin | .... | foley artist | |
| Philippe Richard | .... | boom operator | |
Music Department | |||
| Jean-Michel Bernard | .... | music arranger | |
| Michel Ganot | .... | conductor | |
Other crew | |||
| Aurore Chabrol | .... | script supervisor | |
| Eva Simonet | .... | press attache | |
Production Companies
- MK2 Productions
- CED Productions
- FR3 Films Production
- Canal+ (participation)
- Le Club des Investisseurs (participation) (as Club des Investisseurs C.D.C.)
- Credit Lyonnais (participation)
- Conseil Général de l'Eure (participation)
- Conseil Régional de Haute Normandie (participation)
- MK2 Éditions (2002) (France) (DVD)
- Kulturföreningen Kedjan (1993) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- MK2 Diffusion (1991) (France) (theatrical)
- NEF 2 Filmproduktion (1991) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Samuel Goldwyn Company, The (1991) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Triangelfilm (1993) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Atlantic Film (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Concorde Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
- Future Film (2008) (Finland) (DVD)
- Koch Lorber Films (2008) (USA) (DVD)
- P.F.A. Films (2010) (Italy) (all media)
- Profilmar P.C. (Spain)
- Sandrews (2004) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (1992) (Argentina) (VHS)
- Triangelfilm (1995) (Sweden) (VHS)
- United Films (199?) (Brazil) (VHS)
- Bande rythmo post-synchronisation
- D.C. Audiovisuel sound re-recording
- Eurocitel titles
- Matériel Cinécam camera systems
- Studios de Billancourt auditorium
- Studios de Billancourt editing studio
- Transpalux electrical equipment
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Runtime:
143 min
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1.66 : 1 See more »
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Certification:
Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 | Germany:12 (f) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-13 | Peru:14
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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!".See more »
Quotes:
Le docteur Charles Bovary:[after his wife's death] Fate's the one to blame!See more »
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)See more »
Soundtrack:
Sur le beau Danube bleuSee more »
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Message Boards
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Madame Bovary (1991)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Rodolphe or Leon had really loved Bovary? | malta54 |
| It is pointless to make this novel into a film | phil_manic |
| Arsenic Poisoning? | ellen_sar |
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I agree with the consensus here that this film adaptation is largely unsatisfying. However, I question whether Flaubert's masterpiece can ever be translated graciously to the screen. I suspect that a novel famous for having every word exactly in place, and whose appeal lies as much in the relentless poetic flow of its prose as in the brutally frank psychological characterization of its heroine (and a few other characters!), may be forever out of the reach of other media, and might best be left to pursue its own life on paper.
I also agree that Ms. Huppert's portrayal is cold, but I've always seen Emma as being that way. After all--she's nuts. Crazy people are seldom full of human warmth. Emma Bovary is among the select handful of fictional characters neurotic enough to have given their names to a pathological condition (in this case, bovarism).
It's always possible to admire a movie for its visual beauty, and this one wins hands-down in that category.
But if you want the full impact of the wretched, wrenching story--you have to go back to the book. I applaud Mr. Chabrol for trying, even if he didn't succeed, to make a perhaps impossible adaptation.