Madame Bovary (1991 film)

• Isabelle Huppert: Emma Bovary
• Jean -François Balmer: Charles Bovary
• Jean Yanne: Monsieur Homais
• Christophe Malavoy: Rodolphe
• Lucas Belvaux: Léon
• Christiane Minazzoli: Widow Lefançois
• Jean -Louis Maury: Lheureux
• Marie Mergey: Bovary's mother

With Madame Bovary French filmmaker Claude Chabrol in 1991 filmed the novel (1856 ) by Gustave Flaubert. The story of Emma Bovary, who wants to escape after marriage with a village doctor in rural narrowness and deep into debt by a luxurious lifestyle.

Chabrol claimed to have the film staged as Flaubert would have shot him, would have given this place a spring stood a camera. His version takes its place among the numerous Madame Bovary - screen adaptations. Before him did so already Jean Renoir (1933 ), Gerhard Lamprecht (1937 ) with Pola Negri and Vincente Minnelli (1949 ) with Jennifer Jones, in 1968 there was a German television miniseries and also the substance in several other productions has been taken.

Reviews

The film magazine Positif said, Chabrol's film adaptation will not say anything about the scene, the Normandy of the 19th century, from. The reconstruction is decorative, and illustrative licked too literally to Flaubert's text. The neglect of the social context of the figures let them back in a vacuum. The Revue du cinéma arrived at a positive judgment. Although he verknappe too much under even suggest some of the key scenes in the novel; this is ultimately unfilmable. Nevertheless, it was a good of Chabrol's films, more sober than his others. Huppert plays great, the male supporting actor convinced that the sets and costumes are evidence of flaubert'scher of precision and detail.

Epd film ruled: " The result is a dense drama, which you follow tensioned with a length of more than two hours. ( ... ) It is noteworthy the cut, which meets with its steady rhythm and logic of the relentless precision of Flaubert. (...) Chabrol Actors are excellent. "The Fisherman movie Almanac saw a relationship between Flaubert and Chabrol, because both genre paintings of their time designed. The director had " quite successful " apply the style of the novelist in the movie. " Be " Madame Bovary "may confidently, because of the performances of the actors, the camera, and not least the equipment, regarded as one of his great realizations (...). "

Awards

• At the Academy Awards in 1992 Corinne Jorry was nominated for Best Costume Design.
• In the same year the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film