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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Madame Bovary (1991)



Genre: psychological drama
With: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
Director: Claude Chabrol
Release: 1991
Studio: MK2 International, CED Productions, FR3 Films Productions – Samuel Goldwyn Company
Rating: PG-13
MBiS score: 8.0/10


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Story-line: Emma Rouault leaves her family’s farm to marry Doctor Charles Bovary but soon finds her new life too boring to endure.
Pluses: fine acting and dialogues, a strong drama, clean production values.
Minuses: none whatsoever.
Comments: a recent film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel of 1857. Emma and Charles... a true tragedy.


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