
Madame Bovary
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.
PG-13
HD
Drama, Romance
1991
143 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Madame Bovary
- Duration : 143 min
- Languages : French
- Writers : Gustave Flaubert (based on the novel by), Claude Chabrol (adaptation)
- Directors : Claude Chabrol min
- Imdb : 6.6 (2606 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.3 (2054 votes)
- Actors : Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Franèois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne
Movie Storyline
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.