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Madame Bovary (1991)
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25 December 1991 (USA)
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Plot:
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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2 nominations
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Good but lacks appeal
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Isabelle Huppert | ... | Emma Bovary |
 | Jean-François Balmer | ... | Le docteur Charles Bovary |
| Christophe Malavoy | ... | Rodolphe Boulanger |
| Jean Yanne | ... | M. Homais - le pharmacien |
| Lucas Belvaux | ... | Leon Dupuis |
| Christiane Minazzoli | ... | La veuve Lefançois |
| Jean-Louis Maury | ... | Merchant Lheureux |
| Florent Gibassier | ... | Hippolyte |
| Jean-Claude Bouillaud | ... | Le père Rouault - un paysan - le père d'Emma |
| Sabeline Campo | ... | Felicité |
| Yves Verhoeven | ... | Justin |
| Marie Mergey | ... | La mère Bovary - la mère de Charles |
| François Maistre | ... | Lieuvain - le conseiller de la préfecture |
 | Thomas Chabrol | ... | Le vicomte |
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143 min
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In its original French version, one of the masculine voices overheard by Emma during the great Bail sequence is director Claude Chabrol's voice saying: "Mais qu'il en soit fait selon votre desir, ma chere... Lucien!".
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Referenced in Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
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Sur le beau danube bleu
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| It is pointless to make this novel into a film | phil_manic |
| Arsenic Poisoning? | ellen_sar |
| Rodolphe or Leon had really loved Bovary? | malta54 |
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Isabelle Huppert plays the part very coldly, which makes the story more distant. She seems to view romantic sexual pleasure as something to be acquired instead of experienced. The medical scenes, however, are very well done and almost shocking in the staid context of the film's sensationless depiction of marital infidelity. Other Bovarys (Jennifer Jones and Frances O'Connor) have been much more sensual, whereas Isabel is pretty but it never seems that having sexual intercourse with her would be fun. Sorry to put it so crudely, but I always thought that sexual attraction was the point of the story, and also the source of its tragedy.