Madame Bovary
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"Huppert is astounding... among the year's best." - Rolling Stone
Bored with the banalities and emptiness of provincial life in 19th century France, Emma Bovary (Isabelle Huppert) runs up ruinous debts and has adulterous affairs much to the dismay of her husband, the country doctor. As Emma’s excesses threaten to consume her, she finds herself quickly running out of time. A beautifully realized adaptation of Flaubert’s classic novel, from filmmaker Claude Chabrol, the instigator of France’s “nouvelle vague” film movement.
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Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously a perfectionist about his writing and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word").
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In its original French version, one of the masculine voices overheard by Emma during the great Bail sequence is director Claude Chabrol's voice saying: "Mais qu'il en soit fait selon votre desir, ma chere... Lucien!".
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