Madame Bovary (1991)

Directed by

Claude Chabrol

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 22m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 148 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Emma Bovary is a young woman married to a dull country doctor in 1850s Normandy. Bored with her mundane life and craving passion, she has affairs that lead to her downfall.

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What happens

Madame Bovary is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the 1857 novel Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert. Set in Normandy in the 1850s, the film follows the story of Emma Bovary, an attractive young woman full of romantic notions, whose marriage to an unexciting country doctor leads her to adulterous affairs and tragedy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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