Madame Bovary details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| 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 |
| Name | Discs | |
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Madame Bovary |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 30 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 13 Mar 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Solid adaptation of the novel with fantastic support cast
By a customer from South Oxfordshire , 04 Jul 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(12)Good but too long
By Bobsview (549 reviews) from Gloucestershire , 04 Apr 2013BBC 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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Gloomy
By a customer from south coast ~ UK , 07 Mar 2012the best thing about this film is Greg Wise- Was this review helpful to you?
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dul
By a customer from south west , 27 Feb 2010this part will send you to sleep zzzz!!!!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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good adaptation
By Suza (170 reviews) from Scotland , 08 Oct 2009I enjoyed this adaptation of madam Bovary. It was well acted and Madam Bovary's character captured her passion and her desperation well.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Did the director did not read the book???!!!!!!
By a customer from Plymouth , 18 Nov 2008Appalling. 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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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