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Madame Bovary (2000)

Madame Bovary poster
Directed by
Tim Fywell
Genre
historical drama
Country
United Kingdom
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in 19th century provincial France feels trapped in her marriage and seeks escape through romantic affairs and luxury spending. Her choices lead to mounting debt and growing personal misery.

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What happens

Madame Bovary is a 2000 British drama directed by Tim Fywell and based on the 1857 novel of the same name by French author Gustave Flaubert. It was broadcast in two parts on 6 and 13 February in the U.S.A on WGBH-TV and on 10 and 11 April in the United Kingdom on BBC Two. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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