Product Notes
Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park, The Importance of Being Earnest) star in this splendid adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's dramatic masterpiece. With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault marries local doctor Charles Bovary. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Léon, captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the affair with body and soul. Romantic and tragic, Flaubert's story of a woman's quest for fulfillment in love is an enduring classic not to be missed.
Product Reviews
Previously filmed by such cinematic geniuses as Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli, Gustave Flaubert's once-scandalous 1857 novel Madame Bovary was transformed into a two-part British miniseries in 2000. Set in the rural Normandy of the 1830s and 1840s, this is the story of Emma Rouault (Frances O'Connor), the pampered, well-educated daughter of a wealthy gentleman. Much to her own surprise, Emma accepts the marriage proposal of Charles Bovary (Hugh Bonneville), the provincial doctor who ministers to M. Rouault during a moment of medical crisis. Once she has become Madame Bovary, Emma quickly grows bored with her bourgeois existence, retreating into erotic fantasies stoked by her addiction to romantic novels. Inevitably, Emma strays from her marital vows, first with a handsome young clerk named Leon (Hugh Dancy), then with dashing country squire Rodolphe (Greg Wise). In order to sustain the lavish lifestyle which she feels is her basic right, Emma squanders all of her husband's money -- which plays right into the hands of usurious draper Lheureux (Keith Barron), who has his own wicked plans for the foolishly extravagant Mme. Bovary. In the United States, Madame Bovary was telecast on February 6 and 13, 2000, as part of the PBS Masterpiece Theatre anthology. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Madame Bovary (2000) |
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Drama |
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3 July 2012 |
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Frances O'Connor(Emma Bovary), Hugh Bonneville(Charles Bovary), Greg Wise(Rodolphe Boulanger), Hugh Dancy(Leon), Keith Barron(Lheureaux) |
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Tim Fywell |
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Not Rated |
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DVD |
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305892 |
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883929252466 |
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290250X |
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3 July 2012 |
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BBC VIDEO ( BBCW ) |
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152 |
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1: USA, Canada |
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Color, Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, NTSC |
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Dolby Digital Stereo |
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Discs:1 ~ Format:Ntsc ~ Region:1 |
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Barbara Jefford(Marquise), David Troughton(Homais), Eileen Atkins(Marie Louise), Frances O'Connor(Emma Bovary), Greg Wise(Rodolphe Boulanger), Hugh Bonneville(Charles Bovary), Hugh Dancy(Leon), Keith Barron(Lheureaux), Trevor Peacock(M. Rouault) |
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Art Director:Anne Siebel, Art Director:Niall Moroney, Cinematographer:Chris Seager, Composer (Music Score):John Lunn, Director:Tim Fywell, Executive Producer:David M. Thompson, Executive Producer:Hilary Salmon, Executive Producer:Michael Wearing, Executive Producer:Rebecca Eaton, Producer:Bernard Krichefski, Producer:Tony Redston |
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