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Madame Bovary
FRANCE · 1991

Madame Bovary

Claude Chabrol
infidelity bourgeois society female desire financial ruin romantic disillusionment
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Synopsis

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

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