Léon, disappointed by her rejection, leaves to study in Paris, leaving her without congenial company.Īfter encountering her, the womanising landowner Rodolphe decides he would like an affair with her and, under the pretence of offering riding lessons, finds her more than willing.Īfter four years, she demands that they run away together and, after he agrees, buys travelling clothes and luggage on credit instead he writes her a farewell letter and leaves town. The parish priest is a poor listener and does not respond to her unhappiness. His attentions to her cause adverse comment and eventually prompt her to instead become more attentive to her husband and baby, but this leads her to become dissatisfied yet again. There she meets the law clerk Léon, with whom she can talk about art, literature, poetry and music. Following an aristocratic ball she is more dissatisfied than ever and her husband, noticing this, moves to a larger town with potentially greater diversions, where he is befriended by the apothecary. Charles Bovary is kindly and conscientious, but lacks assertiveness and is a dull conversationalist. 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.įacing spinsterhood on her widowed father's farm Emma, with the help of her father, is successful in attracting and contracting a marriage with the local doctor, whose wife has recently died. 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.
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