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Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary (1934)

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Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: The French provinces of the 1850s are the setting for Gustave Flaubert's classic portrait of spiritual vacuity. In Jean Renoir's film adaptation, Valentine Tessier stars as Emma, the bored daughter... The French provinces of the 1850s are the setting for Gustave Flaubert's classic portrait of spiritual vacuity. In Jean Renoir's film adaptation, Valentine Tessier stars as Emma, the bored daughter of a country farmer who marries local doctor Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir) in hopes of escaping from her stultifying existence. Yet the bumbling, prosaic Bovary further exacerbates her dissatisfaction with a life she feels to be torturously philistine. As a distraction, Emma tries to become involved in local social life but recoils at its banality. In the hope that religion will provide some sense of fullfillment, she performs charitable works but finds that this too lacks the romance she seeks. She becomes interested in Leon Dupuis (Daniel Lecourtois), a lawyer staying in town, but refuses to sleep with him. Finally, she has an affair with wealthy landowner Rodolphe Boulanger (Fernan Fabre), believing him to be the answer to her dreams of romance. When he abandons her, she's crushed but returns to her relationship with Dupuis nonetheless, which only leads her further into despair. [More]

Starring: Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Max Dearly

Starring: Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Max Dearly

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Jean Renoir

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Turned out by a capable French director, with an excellent cast at his command, the screen version of the tragic life of the middle-class small-town girl... makes the most of a subject hardly likely to stir the pulses of a modern audience.

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Butchered by its original distributor (who cut it by an hour), surviving in a merely adequate print, this is nevertheless superb early Renoir.

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Not the best Renoir, but Renoir nonetheless -- and so, very well worth seeing.

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