Madame Bovary poster
Screenplay Claude Chabrol
Director Claude Chabrol

Madame Bovary

Tagline: Two souls adrift on the waves of the Seine

Release Date: 1991-04-03

Duration: 143 minutes

Synopsis

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Casting

  • Jean-François Balmer
    Charles Bovary
  • François Périer
    Narrateur
  • Jean-Louis Maury
    Merchant Lheureux
  • Jean Yanne
    M. Homais
  • Isabelle Huppert
    Emma Bovary
  • François Maistre
    Lieuvain
  • Christiane Minazzoli
    La veuve Lefançois
  • Christophe Malavoy
    Rodolphe Boulanger
  • Dominique Zardi
    Blind man
  • Louis-Do de Lencquesaing