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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| 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 | ... | 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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Phillippe Abitol | ||
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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:
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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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Written by Jean-Michel Tavernier
Performed by M.J. Coignard-Helison
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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
Bourrée CampagnardeWritten by Jean-Michel Tavernier
Performed by M.J. Coignard-Helison
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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.