Madame Bovary
Summary:
Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel -Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts by Vincente Minnelli and others to bring it to the screen), but Nouvelle Vague architect Claude Chabrol set out to definitively prove them wrong with this Oscar-nominated feature adaptation from 1991, starring Isabelle Huppert (The Lacemaker). Hu... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Isabelle Huppert - (Emma Bovary)
Christophe Malavoy - (Rodolphe Boulanger)
Jean-François Balmer - (Charles Bovary)
Jean Yanne - (Monsieur Homais)
Lucas Belvaux - (Leon Dupuis)
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Review:
Director Claude Chabrol's 1991 version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is closer to the source than Vincente Minnelli's Hollywoodized 1949 version, but far less lively and passionate. On the credit side, Isabelle Huppert is flawless as the tragic Emma Bovary. A crude country girl aspiring for the better things in life, Emma marri... Continue >>
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