Madame Bovary
Mar 03 1991
•2h 23m
•Romance, Drama, History
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.
Cast
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Isabelle Huppert
Emma Bovary
Jean-François Balmer
Charles Bovary
Christophe Malavoy
Rodolphe Boulanger
Jean Yanne
M. Homais
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