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Writers:
Gustave Flaubert (novel)
Heidi Thomas (screenplay)
Release Date:
6 February 2000 (USA) more
Plot:
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations more
User Comments:
The book is much better more (4 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Frances O'Connor | ... | Emma Bovary |
 | Hugh Bonneville | ... | Charles Bovary |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Eileen Atkins | ... | Marie Louise |
| Desmond Barrit | ... | Guillaumin (episode 3) |
| Keith Barron | ... | L'heureux (episodes 2, 3) |
| Adam Cooper | ... | Vicomte (episode 1) |
 | Hugh Dancy | ... | Leon |
| Marian Diamond | ... | Sister Marie Paul (episode 1) |
| Claire Hackett | ... | Madame Homais (episodes 2, 3) |
| Jenny Howe | ... | Sister Evangeline (episode 1) |
| Barbara Jefford | ... | Marquise (episode 1) |
| Stanley Lebor | ... | Binet |
| Mary MacLeod | ... | Madame Lefrancois (as Mary Macleod) |
| Roy Macready | ... | Vincart (episode 3) |
| Phillip Manikum | ... | Lestiboudois |
| Joe McGann | ... | Paul |
 | Jessica Oyelowo | ... | Felicite |
| Trevor Peacock | ... | Rouault |
| Joe Roberts | ... | Justin (episodes 2, 3) |
| Willie Ross | ... | Hurdy Gurdy Man (episodes 1, 3) |
| David Troughton | ... | Homais |
| Thomas Wheatley | ... | Dr. Canivet (episode 2) |
| Greg Wise | ... | Rodolphe (episodes 2, 3) |
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180 min | Sweden:153 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Filming Locations:
Ashridge Park, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK more
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Leon: My mind's exercised enough. My mind's worn out with exercising. It's like a mouse on a wheel; like a piston in an engine. It never stops. more
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Version of "Madame Bovary" (1975) more
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The book - I read it one day before I watched the film on DVD - is (as often) much better. It sounds like a cliché but it's a fact. It's difficult to understand the motives of Madame Bovary and one simply needs hundreds of pages to describe what's going on in her mind.
Of course the movie omits many details of the original story. Yet the actors who perform the personages of Bovary, Homais, Lheureux and many minor roles are cast well. However, Frances O'Connor is not a credible Madame Bovary. I think it is difficult to find a actress for this complicated character. I could not help imagining that Emma Thompson might have been a much more sympathetic and understandable Emma Bovary.
Yet I think the BBC deserves a 7 out of 10 for this attempt to represent Flaubert's masterpiece.