Edwige Fenech as Emma Bovary
This is a still image taken from the film Madame Bovary (1934), directed by Jean Renoir and starring Max Dearly and Valentine Tessier.
This is the film poster
The public prosecutors attacked Flaubert's novel for obscenity, and the resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious.
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Unholy Love
Based on Flaubert's classic Madam Bovary
Shocking Untamed Lust
Unholy Love (released in the United Kingdom as Deceit) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed and produced by Albert Ray. It was the first film adaptation of the French novel Madame Bovary produced.
Madame Bovary
A 1937 German historical drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher and Ferdinand Marian.
A 1949 American romantic drama film adaptation of the classic novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Pandro S. Berman, from a screenplay by Robert Ardrey based on the Flaubert novel.
The story of the adulterous wife who destroys the lives of many presented censorship issues with the Motion Picture Production Code. A plot device which structured the story around author Flaubert's obscenity trial was developed to placate the censors. The highlight of the film is an elaborately choreographed ball sequence set to composer Miklós Rózsa's lush film score.
Soft porn alert!
être désirée est la plus belle chose
to be desired is the most beautiful thing
Die nackte Bovary (Play the Game or Leave the Bed)
A 1969 Italian-West German historical erotic drama film directed by Hans Schott-Schöbinger and starring Edwige Fenech, Gerhard Riedmann and Franco Ressel. It is based on Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, although the film cuts out the book's portrayal of her early life and focuses more heavily on her sexual relationships. A provincial Doctor's wife harbours ambitions to rise in the world, but finds herself in a compromising situation following a string of love affairs.
Save and Protect
Save and Protect
A 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov. It depicts the decline of a childlike woman as she engages in adultery and falls into crippling debt. It is loosely adapted from Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.
Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov's 1990’s Save and Protect is based on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary but right away a variety of challenges are posed to us. Sokurov’s film assumes a knowledge of the source material as it casts us immediately into events from the text with little to no establishing set up.
Her erotic encounters, meanwhile, seem like portraits of and outlets for that desperation inevitably accompanying degradation. She is rarely elated. It is mostly a disappointment we see; a desperation born of relentless disappointment. She does after all admonish her lover to listen to “the voice of nature.” She is saying that there is very little love in the world and if we stop loving each other, she will die. The world will turn to ruin.
Bovary plays coquette with a fan on several occasions early on but this inclination is undercut or at least complicated and problematized. For immediately after one of these occasions we see an extended bluntly depicted sex scene between she and her oafish doctor husband. Bestial grunting is pronounced and prominent; it’s clearly “base” and presented to us that way directly yet the classical score continues over it, implying that this is a whole world, impossible to escape and yet just as impossibly breached, fissured in severance of its component elements. The score carries over to a scene set around a kitchen table besieged by flies.
Three Films by Sokurov and Their Literary Progenitors by Nathaniel Carlson in OFF SCREEN Volume 17, Issue 8 August 2013
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel Madame Bovary by the 19th century French author Gustave Flaubert. Isabelle Huppert plays Emma Bovary.
Set in Normandy in the 1850s, the film follows the story of Emma Bovary, an attractive young woman full of romantic notions, whose marriage to an unexciting country doctor leads her to adulterous affairs, debts and eventual suicide.
Maya Memsaab
Young, beautiful and intelligent Maya (Deepa Sahi) lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers a stroke, she calls for local Dr. Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her father. He comes often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually, they get married. Years pass by and Charu is engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to reflect on her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life and an affair follows. This does not last long, as a much younger man Lalit (Shah Rukh Khan) now enters her life and they begin a passionate affair.
But again, Maya is not satisfied as she longs for more than carnal needs. All the time, this bored housewife gets attracted to costly objects and spends recklessly on clothes and furniture, even if she has to borrow money. She mortgages her house to Lalaji. Finally, reality catches up with her. Lalaji brings a court order to take possession of her house. Rudra and Lalit desert her and this leads her to drink a mystical drink that was earlier being advertised on the streets to give you one wish on the condition you had a pure heart. The drink causes her to flash brightly and disappear. This leaves two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.
Madame Bovary
A 2014 German-Belgian-American drama film directed by Sophie Barthes and starring Mia Wasikowska, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Giamatti, and Ezra Miller. The film is based on the 1856 novel of the same name by notable French author Gustave Flaubert. The film begins as Emma (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman not yet 18, is packing up her belongings and preparing to leave the convent to marry the man her farmer father has arranged as her husband: country doctor Charles Bovary (Henry Lloyd-Hughes). But she becomes bored and miserable in the small, provincial town of Yonville. She spends most of her time alone, reading or wandering in the garden while Charles tends to patients. Even when he's home, he either bores or neglects Emma.
Emma longs for more—excitement, passion, status, and love. She shows restraint at first, when smitten law clerk Leon Dupuis (Ezra Miller) skittishly professes his affections for her. But she is intrigued by the dashing Marquis (Logan Marshall-Green), who makes more overt advances. Their affair emboldens her as she believes it gives her glimpse of the good life. She spends money she doesn't have on lavish dresses and decorations from the obsequious dry-goods dealer Monsieur Lheureux (Rhys Ifans), who's all too happy to continue extending her credit.
A bourgeois sex revolutionary?
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