![]() Chabrol for trying, even if he didn't succeed, to make a perhaps impossible adaptation. But if you want the full impact of the wretched, wrenching story-you have to go back to the book. Plot: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual. It's always possible to admire a movie for its visual beauty, and this one wins hands-down in that category. Emma Bovary is among the select handful of fictional characters neurotic enough to have given their names to a pathological condition (in this case, bovarism). Crazy people are seldom full of human warmth. Huppert's portrayal is cold, but I've always seen Emma as being that way. ![]() ![]() I suspect that a novel famous for having every word exactly in place, and whose appeal lies as much in the relentless poetic flow of its prose as in the brutally frank psychological characterization of its heroine (and a few other characters!), may be forever out of the reach of other media, and might best be left to pursue its own life on paper. However, I question whether Flaubert's masterpiece can ever be translated graciously to the screen. I agree with the consensus here that this film adaptation is largely unsatisfying.
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