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Madame Bovary (2000)

| Drama, Romance | TV Movie 6 February 2000
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A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent.... See full summary »

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Cast overview, first billed only:
... Emma Bovary
... Rodolphe
... Marie Louise
... Charles Bovary
... L'heureux
... Felicite
... Rouault
... Homais
... Paul
... Binet
Joe Roberts ... Justin
Mary MacLeod ... Madame Lefrancois
Phillip Manikum ... Lestiboudois
... Leon
... Guillaumin
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A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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The film was released on DVD in 2012 with 158 minutes. See more »

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Emma's eyes/eyelids very visibly twitch and shift after she is supposed to be dead from the poison. See 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.
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The book is much better
5 August 2006 | by – See all my reviews

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.
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