Madame Bovary is a movie directed by Sophie Barthes in 2014 and based on the book of the same name by Gustave Flaubert, first published in 1857. The movie features Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Laura Carmichael, and others.
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Storyline
Emma, a young woman who is not yet 18 years old, packs up her belongings and prepares to leave the convent to marry the man her farmer father has arranged as her husband: country doctor Charles Bovary. However, 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.
Movie vs Book
Year
2014
Minutes
118
Movie Rate
5.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
Madame Bovary
Director: Sophie Barthes
Country: UK
Year: 2014
Length: 1h58m
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Year
1857
Pages
329
Book Rate
7.36
S: Goodreads
Book
Madame Bovary
Original title: Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Country: France
First published in: 1857
Length: 329 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Didier Bivel
User polls & recommendations
“In screenplay terms, writing a novel is more like writing a full 22 episode season of a TV series, than it is a movie.”
JEFF LYONS (Screenwriter)
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