Madame Bovary
2000
The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-destruction... Based on the novel by .. Read more
| Starring | Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins, Greg Wise |
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| Director | Tim Fywell |
| Genres | Drama |
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Madame Bovary
The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-destruction... Based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert.
| Starring | Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins, Greg Wise, Keith Barron, Hugh Dancy, Trevor Peacock, David Troughton, Joe McGann, Claire Hackett, Adam Cooper |
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| Director | Tim Fywell |
| Studio | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Mar 2006 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Solid adaptation of the novel with fantastic support cast
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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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Solid adaptation of the novel with fantastic support cast
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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