After further stage success, Heidi wrote many screen adaptations for the BBC, including Madame Bovary, Cranford and a reboot of Upstairs, Downstairs. However, she is best known as the writer and ...

Gustave Flaubert adaptation Madame Bovary (1991) and Georges Simenon adaptation Betty (1992) are complementary examinations of women trapped in passionless marriages. And Torment (1994) is a study in ...

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Her violent self-destruction ends the film. In a way, this version of “Madame Bovary” resembles a slow Hitchcock film, say “Under Capricorn.” There is tension, and mild suspense.

Leading Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael has revealed how he shot Bovary his new film, a take on Flaubert’s classic novel, Madame Bovary, in just five days.

Pas du tout. This is not a rewriting of Madame Bovary for shallow 21st-century minds whose erotic threshold has been turbo-boosted by the internet, cheap Swedish (and French) movies and, er, Playboy.

This strange but compelling book is at once a passionate critique and courageous reimagining of Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece of psychological realism, Madame Bovary.

Emma Rouault (Isabelle Huppert), the pretty daughter of a prosperous farmer, marries the dowdy widower Dr. Charles Bovary (Jean-Francois Balmer) and moves into his little house.

“Madame Bovary” first appeared in 1856. At the time, the author was taken to court on charges that he was endangering the morals of the very young. The novel has been filmed at least four times.

Seeing a note on ICM that a poll for the best films of 1991 would be coming soon,I decided to look at what the output of New Wave auteur Claude Chabrol was from that year. Finding the last viewing of ...