Madame Bovary
Two souls adrift on the waves of the Seine
★★★★★
French / 143 MIN. / 1991
The Genres
The Synopsis
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.