Isabelle Huppert, France’s great, ageless woman star, has been quoted as declaring “Bovary, ce n’est pas moi” — “Bovary, it’s not me” — a dangerous thing for an actress to say ...

GUSTAVE Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” has been filmed so many times, you might legitimately assume that most people are aware of this character and her hapless life experience.Wrong. Many ...

Madame Bovary has a rich screen history, including movie versions by such auteurs as Jean Renoir, Vincente Minnelli and Claude Chabrol, who brought “Madame Bovary” to the silver screen.

8. MADAME BOVARY WAS FIRST TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY FLAUBERT'S NIECE'S GOVERNESS.. The first-known English translation of Madame Bovary was completed by Juliet Herbert—the governess for ...

Madame Bovary . Ep. 1/10 Starring John Hurt, beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Bovary, but she is distraught over the lack of passion and excitement. Gustave Flaubert's French masterpiece of ...

Brooding and moody from the outset, director Sophie Barthes’ “Madame Bovary” makes many changes to Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 debut novel, streamlining Emma Bovary’s tale of want and woe ...

Each fall, I teach “Madame Bovary” to my graduate writing students at Hunter College, and each fall I read it with them. My course is called Introduction to the Modern: The Role of Compassion ...

The first thing to say about Madame Bovary is that it's a terrific story. Other comparably great and famous novels aren't, but it is. Everyone should read it. Everyone would read it, given a free ...

Although worlds away from the deadpan sci-fi whimsy of her 2009 debut, “Cold Souls,” director Sophie Barthes’ subdued take on “Madame Bovary” similarly reveals a sly intelligence at the ...