Madame Bovary (2000)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 180m
Director: Tim Fywell
Cast: Frances O'Connor, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Keith Barron
Synopsis:
In eighteenth century France, a young woman's imagination has been filled with romantic notions from novels and a formative once-in-a-lifetime visit to a landowner's ball. She quickly comes to regret her marriage to a country doctor, and begins a downward spiral of indebtedness and deceit.
Review:
This TV version has length on its side, and a committed central portrayal extending to alfresco coupling, but gets no closer to the exhaustively detailed realism and irony of Flaubert's text.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 180m
Director: Tim Fywell
Cast: Frances O'Connor, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Keith Barron
Synopsis:
In eighteenth century France, a young woman's imagination has been filled with romantic notions from novels and a formative once-in-a-lifetime visit to a landowner's ball. She quickly comes to regret her marriage to a country doctor, and begins a downward spiral of indebtedness and deceit.
Review:
This TV version has length on its side, and a committed central portrayal extending to alfresco coupling, but gets no closer to the exhaustively detailed realism and irony of Flaubert's text.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 180m
Director: Tim Fywell
Cast: Frances O'Connor, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Keith Barron
Synopsis:
In eighteenth century France, a young woman's imagination has been filled with romantic notions from novels and a formative once-in-a-lifetime visit to a landowner's ball. She quickly comes to regret her marriage to a country doctor, and begins a downward spiral of indebtedness and deceit.
Review:
This TV version has length on its side, and a committed central portrayal extending to alfresco coupling, but gets no closer to the exhaustively detailed realism and irony of Flaubert's text.