Madame Bovary (1991)
- Starring:
- Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Malavoy, (more)
- Director(s):
- Claude Chabrol
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Madame Bovary
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). Huppert stars as Emma Bovary, a woman whose happiness depends exclusively on elements outside of herself. She spends her days indulging in flights of fancy and endless romantic longings, emotionally estranged from her good-natured but ignorant husband Charles (Jean-François Balmer) a physician whom she married as an escape from her landowner father's farm. Her fate seems poised to change when she meets and falls hard for Rodolphe Boulanger (Christophe Malavoy) - a lover who takes her to bed and then vows to elope with her. Pinning all of her hopes on this, she invests in a traveling costume that she's unable to afford (rendering herself completely in debt with a local millner), and plans to skip town with Rodolphe when the monies come due. Alas, Rodolphe, as it turns out, never planned to follow through with the elopement plans, and promptly abandons Emma, leaving her to face the dire consequences of her foolish decisions. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 140 mins
Complete Cast of Madame Bovary
- Isabelle Huppert - Emma Bovary
- Jean-François Balmer - Charles Bovary
- Lucas Belvaux - Leon Dupuis
- Florent Gibassier - Hippolyte
- Christine Paolini - Mother Rolet Nourrice
- Jacques Dynam - L'Abbe Bournisien
- Yves Verhoeven - Justin
- Dominique Clement - Madame Homais
- André Thorent - Doctor Canivet
- Pierre-Francois Dumeniaud - Hivert
- Etienne Draber - Master Guillaumin
- François Perier - Narrator
- Christophe Malavoy - Rodolphe Boulanger
- Jean Yanne - Monsieur Homais
- Christiane Minazzoli - Widow LeFrancois
- Marie Mergey - Charles Bovary's Mother
- Jean-Claude Bouillaud - Monsieur Rouault
- Jean-Louis Maury - Lheureux
- Dominique Zardi - Blind Man
- François Maistre - Lieuvain
- Gilette Barbier - Natasie
- Thomas Chabrol - Vicomte
- Henri Attal - Master Hareng
- Sabeline Campo - Felicite
- Director(s):
- Claude Chabrol
- Writer(s):
- Claude Chabrol
- Producer(s):
- Marin Karmitz
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13(Substance Abuse, Not For Children, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
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