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Madame Bovary (1934)

Madame Bovary poster
Directed by
Jean Renoir
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in 19th century France feels trapped in a mundane marriage with a kind but dull doctor. She pursues passionate affairs and expensive things as an escape, which leads to devastating consequences.

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What happens

Madame Bovary is a 1934 French historical drama film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier and Pierre Renoir, and adapted from Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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