Madame Bovary Director: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan
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- DVD Release Date: 03/06/2007
- Original Release: 1949
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- Sales Rank: 21,769
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Features
Vintage Pete Smith specialty short Those Good Old Days; Classic cartoon Out-Foxed; Theatrical trailer; Subtitles: English & Português (feature film only)
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Disc #1 -- Madame Bovary
1. Credits [1:40]
2. Author on Trial [4:17]
3. Charles Meets Emma [4:06]
4. Dream World [4:36]
5. Country Wedding Scene [4:59]
6. Weeping Newlywed [4:15]
7. Entertaining [4:32]
8. Daily Routine [5:41]
9. The Ball [4:30]
10. The Waltz [4:18]
11. Leon's Mother [4:30]
12. Rodolphe's Advances [5:10]
13. Storybook Ambition [3:27]
14. No Cure for Hippolite [3:24]
15. Ecstasy [2:24]
16. Full-Flame Affair [4:10]
17. Take Me Along [4:33]
18. Left Behind [5:38]
19. Reunited With Leon [5:03]
20. Rueful Rendezvous [3:59]
21. Woman in Trouble [4:00]
22. Tell the Woman Goodbye [3:34]
23. Facing Foreclosure [5:48]
24. No Help From Rodolphe [6:24]
25. Visit to the Apothecary [2:55]
26. Last Rites [3:19]
27. Lives Truthfully Touched [2:06]
28. Cast List [:44]
Editorial Reviews
MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented this 1949 film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by adding a prologue and epilogue that assured any and all bluenoses that the story was strictly a work of fiction. James Mason appears as Flaubert, defending his inflammatory novel before a French jury. Thus, the tragedy of Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones) is offered as a product of Flaubert's imagination, rather than a real-life story. The body of the film concerns Emma's attempt to escape the boredom of her bourgeois existence by marrying a wealthy doctor (Van Heflin). She finds life with the physician even more tiresome than her previous experiences, thus begins taking a series of wealthy lovers -- all of whom prove to be two-dimensional cads. Unable to tolerate a lifetime of dead-end affairs, Emma eventually commits suicide. The best sequence -- indeed, one of the finest set pieces ever directed by Vincente Minnelli -- is the "Emma Bovary Waltz" sequence, a dazzling experience in dizzying camera movements. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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