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Madame Bovary (1991)
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Release Date:
25 December 1991 (USA)
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Plot:
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary)...
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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2 nominations
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(2 articles)
Robert Pattinson is warmed-over turkey in 'Remember Me' (IrishCentral)
(From IrishCentral. 29 November 2009, 5:39 AM, PST)
Kate Winslet Looks to Conquer Miniseries with Mildred Pierce
(From Collider.com. 14 August 2009, 11:17 AM, PDT)
(From IrishCentral. 29 November 2009, 5:39 AM, PST)
Kate Winslet Looks to Conquer Miniseries with Mildred Pierce
(From Collider.com. 14 August 2009, 11:17 AM, PDT)
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Over-economical screenmake of a literary classic
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Cast
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Directed by | |||
| Claude Chabrol | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Claude Chabrol | writer | |
| Gustave Flaubert | novel | |
Produced by | |||
| Marin Karmitz | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Jean-Michel Bernard | |||
| Matthieu Chabrol | |||
| Maurice Coignard | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Jean Rabier | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Monique Fardoulis | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Michèle Abbé-Vannier | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Jacques Mollon | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Corinne Jorry | |||
Production Management | |||
| Yvon Crenn | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Cécile Maistre | .... | assistant director | |
| Alain Wermus | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Brigitte Grynblat | .... | sound editor | |
| André Naudin | .... | foley artist | |
| Gadou Naudin | .... | foley artist | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Cendrine Dedise | .... | assistant camera | |
| Jean-Marc Rabier | .... | assistant camera | |
| Alain Tanguy | .... | electrician | |
| Michel Thiriet | .... | camera operator | |
Music Department | |||
| Dominique Zardi | .... | composer: song "La chanson d'Emma" | |
Other crew | |||
| Aurore Chabrol | .... | script supervisor | |
| Eva Simonet | .... | press attache | |
Production Companies
- CED Productions
- Club des Investissments
- Conseil General de L'Eure
- Conseil Régional de Haute Normandie
- France 3 Cinéma
- MK2 Productions
- Kulturföreningen Kedjan (1993) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Triangelfilm (1993) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Triangelfilm (1995) (Sweden) (VHS)
- Sandrews (2004) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Atlantic Film (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Samuel Goldwyn Company, The (1991) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Concorde Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
- Future Film (2008) (Finland) (DVD)
- Koch Lorber Films (2008) (USA) (DVD)
- MK2 Diffusion
- Profilmar P.C. (Spain)
- United Films (199?) (Brazil) (VHS)
- Bande rythmo post-synchronisation
- D.C. Audiovisuel sound re-recording
- Eurocitel titles
- Matériel Cinécam camera systems
- Studios de Billancourt auditorium
- Studios de Billancourt editing studio
- Transpalux electrical equipment
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Runtime:
143 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-13 |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG-13 |
Germany:12
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Trivia:
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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
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Soundtrack:
Sur le beau danube bleu
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Madame Bovary (1991)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Arsenic Poisoning? | ellen_sar |
| Rodolphe or Leon had really loved Bovary? | malta54 |
| It is pointless to make this novel into a film | phil_manic |
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Just finished watching this film on VHS after a long search of London libraries. Disappointed, but first the good stuff... Huppert does the soul-wrent-in-twain-through-moral-confusion well. The others in the cast are unknown to me but do a better job than on the made for TV version (BBC 2002) simply because they are French (don't live day to day with ironing boards for spines). The costuming is beautiful - this is important to twist the knife as Emma's debt becomes incommutable. The bad stuff - the direction. Or lack of it. La Ceremonie is the only Chabrol film I can remember worth seeing; this film is not as bad as the recent zzz-worth Merci pour le Chocolat... there's French filmmaking and there's unabashed pretension and that film is the latter. The continuity in Bovary is sloppy as is the sound editing (although Chabrol's brother's score's OK). The final straw is Huppert's inability to find some of the naivete that is so engaging in, say, Heaven's Gate. The latter part of the film is good - it's as if her scheming to avoid the fate she is preparing for herself increases the fall she succumbs to. But at the beginning, she's the same character... there's no preparation for a transformation. And WHY - WHY OH WHY does this production insist on white sub-titles? It's such a cheap error! 5/10... buy lots of popcorm.