Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 1 - 15

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Directed by: Claude Chabrol Summary: In 19th century France, the daughter of a country squire, Emma, marries a country doctor, Charles Bovary(Jean-François Balmer). All to soon, Emma grows bored with her husband and looks elsewhere for romance first with a landowner, Rodolphe Boulanger(Christophe Malavoy), then with a law student, Léon Dupuis(Lucas Belvaux). Her extravagant tastes lead Emma to run up a huge debt. Determined to keep her folly from her husband, who still dotes on her, ...