A heartbroken Emma attempts suicide, but Charles intervenes. Unhappy with her life, Emma embarks on a relationship with Leon Dupuis, but his mother induces him to move to Paris and enroll in law school.Īfter Charles fails to match her lofty expectations of 'heroic country doctor', Emma succumbs to the advances of aristocrat Rodolphe Boulanger, who then abandons her. She soon tires of her role as mother and leaves Berthe's upbringing to her nanny. Instead, Emma gives birth to a girl, Berthe. Bemoaning her lack of social status, Emma tells Charles she wants a baby boy, someone not confined in accordance with restoration France's repressive cultural norms. Emma re-decorates it lavishly, incurring much debt. The two are married and move into a small house in Normandy. Thus, we are introduced to 20-year-old Emma, a lonely woman who fantasizes a perfect life for herself. Flaubert counters with a narration of Bovary's story from his own realist perspective. His accusers have described the book's title character as shocking and immoral. In an 1850s Paris courtroom, author Gustave Flaubert attempts to prevent the banning of his novel Madame Bovary. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration in 1950 for Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, Edwin B. One famous sequence of the film is an elaborately choreographed ball sequence set to composer Miklós Rózsa's film score. A plot device which structured the story around author Flaubert's obscenity trial was developed to placate the censors. The story of a frivolous and adulterous wife presented censorship issues with the Motion Picture Production Code. Production ran from mid-December 1948 to mid-March 1949 and the film premiered the following August.

The film was a project of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and Lana Turner was set to star, but when pregnancy forced her to withdraw, Jones stepped into the title role. Planck and the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, the cinematography by Robert H. Berman, from a screenplay by Robert Ardrey based on the Flaubert novel.

It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Pandro S.

It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin (billed as Christopher Kent), Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper. Madame Bovary is a 1949 American romantic drama, a film adaptation of the classic 1857 novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert.

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