Madame Bovary (1991 film)

Madame Bovary
Directed byClaude Chabrol
Screenplay byClaude Chabrol
Based onMadame Bovary
1857 novel
by Gustave Flaubert
Produced byMarin Karmitz
Starring
Narrated byFrançois Périer
CinematographyJean Rabier
Edited byMonique Fardoulis
Music byJean-Michel Bernard
Matthieu Chabrol
Maurice Coignard
Distributed byMK2 Diffusion
Release date
  • 3 April 1991 (1991-04-03)
Running time
143 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Madame Bovary is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the 1857 novel Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert.

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 and tragedy.