That makes her easy prey for the conniving Rodolphe Boulanger (Christophe Malavoy), a handsome, charming gentleman who preys on her loneliness and unfulfilled passions with poetic proclamations of true love and destiny. She chooses the decent and conscientious country doctor Charles Bovary (Jean-François Balmer) as her way out but her fantasies of romantic love and society life are dashed when she finds him dull, unambitious, and weak. ![]() Isabelle Huppert stars as Emma Bovary, an unmarried farmer's daughter dreaming of romance and desperate to leave her drab peasant existence for marriage and city life. It proved to be a good match of material and director, who brings out the complicated nature and motivations of one the most fascinating heroines in literature. Madame Bovary (1991) was a rare literary adaptation and period piece for the filmmaker. Claude Chabrol, one of the founding filmmakers of the French New Wave, was known for his psychological drama and thrillers, many of them adaptations of popular or pulp novels.
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