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1991

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Starring	Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne
Director	Claude Chabrol
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Madame Bovary

Claude Chabrol's lifelong interest in the psychological lives of women finds a perfect vehicle in Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, MADAME BOVARY. Isabelle Hupert, Chabrol's frequent collaborator and muse, brings a detached and icy intensity to her portrayal of Emma, an ambitious farmer's daughter suffocated by her own life. When Emma meets meek country doctor Charles Bovary (Jean-Francois Balmer), she sees a ticket out of her meager existence. However, the lure of marriage and motherhood is short-lived, and soon Emma senses a new set of ever-encroaching snares and limits preventing her from fulfilling the fanciful destiny she constructs for herself out of her own desires and the romance novels that fuel them. When her outlets of novels and the odd ball at the local chateau cease to satisfy Emma's ravenous hunger for passion and luxury, she takes matters into her own hands, embarking on a double life of domesticity and adultery. Chabrol injects the film with his patented dark humour while remaining faithful to Flaubert's stinging depiction of the narrow world of 19th-century provincial life and its clash with female desires as fleshed out by the tragic figure of Huppert's immensely complicated but very real Emma.

Starring	Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne, Florent Gibassier, Lucas Belvaux
Director	Claude Chabrol
Studio	ARROW FILMS
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 16 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: French
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1991 To Rent: DVD: 22 Apr 2002

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  It's Durkhiem's malady of infinite desire with garlic, (but no vampires or Jack Russells...)
  
  I didn't care too much for the film, good acting though, good enough for me to want to shake the too good doctor, (vain and stupid), and strangle Madame B. ... read more »
  
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  Strangely ill-judged for Chabrol, characterised by positively jolly music, and some exasperating voice-overs in which key aspects of the story are tidied away ... read more »
  
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  Claude Chabrol's lifelong interest in the psychological lives of women finds a perfect vehicle in Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, MADAME BOVARY. Isabelle Hupert, Chabrol's frequent collaborator and muse, brings a detached and icy intensity to her portrayal of Emma, an ambitious farmer's daughter ...