In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love ...
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Title: Madame Bovary (1991)
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Cast
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| Isabelle Huppert | ... | Emma Bovary | |
| Jean-François Balmer | ... | Le docteur Charles Bovary | |
| Christophe Malavoy | ... | Rodolphe Boulanger | |
| Jean Yanne | ... | M. Homais - le pharmacien | |
| Lucas Belvaux | ... | Léon Dupuis | |
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Christiane Minazzoli | ... | La veuve Lefançois |
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Jean-Louis Maury | ... | Merchant Lheureux |
| Florent Gibassier | ... | Hippolyte | |
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Jean-Claude Bouillaud | ... | Le père Rouault - un paysan - le père d'Emma |
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Sabeline Campo | ... | Felicité |
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Yves Verhoeven | ... | Justin |
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Marie Mergey | ... | La mère Bovary - la mère de Charles |
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François Maistre | ... | Lieuvain - le conseiller de la préfecture |
| Thomas Chabrol | ... | Le vicomte | |
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In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law student (Leon Dupuis), and runs up ruinous debts. This film version closely follows Flaubert's novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and the opera in Rouen. Written by English Showalter <showalte@crab.rutgers.edu>
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
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25 December 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$1,942,424Company Credits
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(An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314)
Music by Johann Strauss (as J. Strauss)
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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 »Goofs
During the ball, the music is "The Blue Danube" by Johan Strauss, composed in 1866. However, the action is taking place in 1837. See more »Soundtracks
Sur le beau Danube bleu(An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314)
Music by Johann Strauss (as J. Strauss)
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I am usually the most avid of Chabrol fans, but with Madame Bovary he finally made a real turkey. This film is dull dull dull. I probably could have abided the tediousness and the fastidious faithfulness to the book if the film had a lead actress who was even remotely credible in the lead. But Huppert is woefully miscast as Emma. Emma Bovary is supposed to be a passionate woman who recklessly throws herself into adulterous affairs. Huppert plays Emma as an ice princess, about as passionate as a bowl of oatmeal! Huppert achieves the astonishing feat of maintaining the same facial expression throughout the film; at times I wondered if her facial muscles were paralyzed. This would have been a perfect role for Isabel Adjani...too bad. Read the book instead.
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