Madame Bovary details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Florent Gibassier, Lucas Belvaux, Jean-Francois Balmer, Isabelle Huppert, Jean Yanne, Christophe Malavoy |
| Director: | Claude Chabrol |
| Genres: | Drama - Period, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | ARROW FILMS |
| Name | Discs | |
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Madame Bovary |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 16 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 22 Apr 2002 |
| Main languages: | French |
| Subtitles: | English |
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It's Durkhiem's malady of infinite desire with garlic, (but no vampires or Jack Russells...)
By Joe Evans from Wallsuches, Lancashire. , 27 Oct 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
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. It's one of those films that really is like watching a train crash in slow motion. You just know it's going to be a bad outcome.I watched it until the characters tried the contemporary equivalent of the 3 mile high club... the 3 feet high club.But overall I tired of waiting for the obvious bad end...Too long, too slow... Perhaps a very overated story... Perhaps Madame B needs to learn the lesson of history, the only thing that can cuddle up to a turd and come up smelling of roses is a rose.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer , 10 Jan 2013Although this is a renowned adaptation and the film was good, it was rather 'wooden'. I preferred television adaptations and particularly a radio adaptation starring Nicola Pagett in the title role.- Was this review helpful to you?
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laughably bad merde
By a customer , 13 Dec 2012Laughably bad. Even if I could concentrate on the film rather than the overbearing and ridiculously inappropriate 1950ies style travelogue music, I would have found it shallow and almost insultingly simplistic and slow considering how layered and subtle the book was. How Chabrol could have made decent films as well as this merde is beyond me. He now owes me two hour s of my life.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Ennui en legs
By a customer from Cupar , 13 Apr 2009Strangely ill-judged for Chabrol, characterised by positively jolly music, and some exasperating voice-overs in which key aspects of the story are tidied away in flat-toned rapid-fire monologue, as though the director couldn't be bothered to film that bit. Huppert, as ever, is a fine actress, and there are some inspired moments, but the overall effect is dreary.- Was this review helpful to you?
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ok
By alex24 (24 reviews) from Richmond , 19 Aug 2008ok................................................ .................................................. ..............- Was this review helpful to you?
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Diappointing
By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 09 Aug 2008For all the passion of the story this was a pretty passionless affair, tackled in a very pedestrian manner with strangely stuttering jumps in the second half of the film. I'm usually a great fan of Chabrol, but obviously he was so much in awe of Flaubert's famous novel that it was too difficult to amend it in his own characteristic manner. It all looked a superb reconstruction of nineteenth century rural France, and the acting was flawless and very well directed, but the overall impression was somehow rather underwhelming. A pity, but perhaps it was too much to carry off.- Was this review helpful to you?
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