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 ...

Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel “Madame Bovary” is no stranger to the big screen, as the 1865 book ... Isabelle Huppert-starring 1991 take from Claude Chabrol.

When Madame Bovary was published in 1857, it was hailed and denounced as a bleak satire of contemporary life and mores. Henry James called it a masterpiece, although said its subject was "all that ...

The three bad girls of great literature are Medea (who murdered her kids to punish the husband who’d abandoned her for a trophy woman), Lady Macbeth (the original yuppie wife) and Flaubert&#8… ...

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 ...