France 1991
Gustave Flaubert's classic novel about Emma Bovary, a
passionate woman who rebels
against the conventions that stifle her as the wife of a dull country
doctor, caused a furor
in 1857. But for those who weren't morally outraged, the book struck a
responsive chord.
"Madame Bovary, c'est moi," said Flaubert, indicating that Emma's
discontent crossed
gender lines. Today, Emma's plight still draws us in. This new film
version, from writer-director Claude Chabrol, is the ninth so far. Emma's influence even
extends to Disney's
Beauty and the Beast, in which the heroine, Belle, warbles, "I want much
more than this
provincial life."
Obviously, Chabrol also thinks of Emma as a modern woman. But the
triumphant film he
has fashioned isn't a tricked-up, revisionist adaptation. Starring the
incomparable Isabelle
Huppert, Chabrol's film stays rigorously faithful to Flaubert, unlike
Vincente Minnelli's
overproduced 1949 film with Jennifer Jones. Shooting near Rouen, where
Flaubert lived
(the location is vibrantly captured by Jean Rabier's camera), and taking
the dialogue
directly from the book, Chabrol respects Flaubert and the audience by
allowing Madame
Bovary to speak without interference to a new generation.
Excerpt of Peter Travers review located HERE
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Theatrical Release: France 3 April 1991
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DVD Review: Arrow Film - Region 0 - PAL
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| Runtime | 136:48 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1:1.78 Aspect Ratio
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Release Information: Studio: Arrow Film Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 30 |
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The tape-master used in this DVD is
licensed from MK2, but as with many other Arrow films DVDs, they
sometimes have a slightly lower bit-rate than the French edition. The picture quality varieties a lot. The outdoor scenes seems to be quite good, but in the low light indoors scenes there's trouble. There's visible digital artifacts, and the color seems unnecessarily flat. Even though the picture is reasonably sharp, the transfer has some problems with drawing the details correctly (see the faces in large screen capture number 3). The DVD seems to be cropped for widescreen equipment, from 1:1.66 to 1:1.78. This is often fatal, as Chabrol uses a very tight picture compositions. A quite reasonable DVD, even though it's far from what it could be. Note also, that even though this is a UK company the extras don't have English subtitles. |
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Recommended Reading in French Cinema (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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The Films in My Life |
French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie, Keith Reader |
Agnes Varda by Alison Smith | Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard |
Claude Chabrol (French Film Directors)
by Guy Austin |
Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No.
2) by James Quandt |
The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau |
French New Wave
by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno |
French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present by Remi Fournier Lanzoni |
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