Madame Bovary details

Format: 15 DVD
Starring: Joe McGann, Hugh Dancy, Hugh Bonneville, Greg Wise, Clai, Trevor Peacock, David Troughton, Keith Barron, Frances O'Connor, Eileen Atkins
Director: Tim Fywell
Genre: Drama - Period
Studio: 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO
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Madame Bovary
15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Rental release: 13 Mar 2006
Main languages: English
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  • Solid adaptation of the novel with fantastic support cast

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By a customer from South Oxfordshire , 04 Jul 2006

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    This was a solid and, on the whole, faithful television adaptation of Flaubert's novel. There is a fantastic support cast, but, if we compare this movie to the novel, as we inevitably do when watching television dramatisations, Frances O'Connor is somewhat miscast as Madame Bovary because, although she succeeds in conveying Flaubert's ridicule of romanticism in a masculine material world, she fails to convince us as the chic coquette of Flaubert's novel. Also, she is strangely unconvincing as the young, and poignantly ingenuous but passionate Emma Bovary. Therefore, this somewhat spoils the movie, but the rest of the cast, except perhaps for a rather lacklustre Greg Wise, are brilliant.
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  • Good but too long

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By Bobsview (549 reviews) from Gloucestershire , 04 Apr 2013
    BBC film based on French novel about woman who marries a doctor but is unfulfilled and bored. She embarks on a string of passionate affairs and runs up debts and it all end in tears. A bit slow and long.
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  • Gloomy

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By a customer from south coast ~ UK , 07 Mar 2012
    the best thing about this film is Greg Wise
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  • dul

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By a customer from south west , 27 Feb 2010
    this part will send you to sleep zzzz!!!!!
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  • good adaptation

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By Suza (170 reviews) from Scotland , 08 Oct 2009
    I enjoyed this adaptation of madam Bovary. It was well acted and Madam Bovary's character captured her passion and her desperation well.
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  • Did the director did not read the book???!!!!!!

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By a customer from Plymouth , 18 Nov 2008
    Appalling. O' Connor is not Emma. She is childish, skittish, vacuous, she lacks all the complexity with which Flaubert endowed her...and she is far too old. 30 minutes in I turned it off...Don't bother.
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