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Madame Bovary
Product Group: Video
Studio: BBC Warner
ISBN: B00004WG9A
EAN: 9780790756561
UPC: 794051140531
VHS Tape
Release Date: 2000-07-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
SKU: 08020080
Condition: Very Good Good
Comments: VHS tape in very good shape. From library with usual library markings and plastic clamshell case. Original artwork within clamshell case. Play-tested and has very good video and audio. Very nice tape.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
Swiftly following the BBC's saga of a country doctor's daughter, Wives and Daughters (1999), comes their tale of a country doctor's wife. Madame Bovary is adapted from the great French novel by Gustave Flaubert and recounts the story of a young woman who longs for a more passionate life than her provincial world can ever accommodate. Unwilling to accept the confines of her marriage to the steady and conventional Charles (Hugh Bonneville), Emma Bovary (Frances O'Connor) embarks on self-deluding affairs that lead to tragedy. As selfishly amoral as Emma Bovary is, and even though her motivation is sometimes unfathomable in this version, we do feel for her plight and the story develops with cumulative power--though a ridiculous sex scene against a tree doesn't help. This is at least the 10th screen adaptation, the 1949 Hollywood take and the 1991 French version by Claude Chabrol being the most notable. The story is a predecessor of Jules et Jim (1962) and Betty Blue (1986) and inspired David Lean's great film Ryan's Daughter (1970). This version has a dark visual beauty and a powerful central performance by Frances O'Connor, but a brisker pace and sharper psychological insight might have transformed a polished entertainment into a television classic. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk
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Customer Reviews
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Didn't Like
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-04-23
I'm sure that Ms. O'Connor is a good actress, but this movie wasn't good. I wasn't empathetic toward Madame Bovary at all. Dr. Bovary may have been a conservative man, but he didn't come off as cruel or otherwise deserving of a cheating wife.
The story cut off suddenly and was otherwise tedious. I am sure that the actual novel was much better, but there was no emotion in the movie. Waste of time.
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Didn't quite catch my attention......
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-04-25
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I didn't really enjoy this adaption. O'Connor just didn't fit the bill to play Emma. I never got any sense of passion or tension in her, she played it too flat. And a little over the top in some places. But never right on. It was only ok, nothing miraculous.
The whole movie just felt "wrong". I won't be watching it again.
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BBC's Version of Madame Bovary...
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-12-19
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This controversial novel by Gustave Flaubert was beautifully portrayed in this authentic to the period film. All of the actors were riveting. Frances O'Connor was a perfect Emma, and Greg Wise shined as Rodolphe Boulanger. It is a shame though, when a French provincial woman suffers the consequences of debouchery and excess. Beware of the nudity.
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Bovary Revisited
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-02-17
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
The second BBC stab at Flaubert's novel in recent memory, successful primarily for the delicately shaded performance of Frances O'Connor (who did similarly elegant work in the recent feature of MANSFIELD PARK). Handsome enough physical production, good supporting cast, but many unnecessary additions in character and plot points from the screenwriter, and considerably more English than French in feel (the estimable Eileen Atkins, in particular, makes the elder Madame Bovary seem like a refugee from E.F. Benson). Closer in spirit to the novel than the Chabrol film, with a hopelessly pragmatic Emma in Isabelle Huppert; still eclipsed by the MGM version, where Jennifer Jones' neurotic beauty seems very close to the ideal realization of the book's elusive anti-heroine. Enjoyable enough, but not on a par with the BBC's finest adaptations.
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