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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
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
Director Tim Fywell
Studio 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 30 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
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

    Rated - 3 stars

    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

    Rated - 3 stars

    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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