Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Two souls adrift on the waves of the Seine

1991143 min6.3 / 10

A melancholic, psychologically penetrating portrait of a woman's doomed struggle against the constraints of provincial bourgeois life, told with 19th-century literary sophistication.

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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