Madame Bovary

Overview

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Family guide

Cast & crew

Claude ChabrolDirectorIsabelle Huppertas Emma BovaryJean-François Balmeras Charles BovaryChristophe Malavoyas Rodolphe BoulangerJean Yanneas M. HomaisLucas Belvauxas Leon DupuisChristiane Minazzolias La veuve LefançoisJean-Louis Mauryas Merchant LheureuxHenri Attalas Maître HarengFrançois Périeras NarrateurFrançois Maistreas LieuvainFlorent Gibassieras HippolyteJean-Claude Bouillaudas Le père d'EmmaSSabeline Campoas FelicitéYves Verhoevenas Justin

Madame Bovary across IJR

• “He was happy now, without a care in the world. A meal alone with her, a stroll along the highway in the evening, the way she touched her hand to her hair, the sight of her straw hat hanging from a window hasp, and many other things in which it had never occurred to him to look for pleasure — such now formed the steady current of his happiness.”

• “The music was still throbbing in her ears, and she forced herself to stay awake in order to prolong the illusion of this luxurious life she would so soon have to be leaving. ... She longed to know all about their lives, to penetrate into them, to be part of them.”

• “"What an unutterable catastrophe!" The apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion.”

• “The difficulties he foresaw were so formidable that he quickly banished the disagreeable subject from his mind.”

• “Often, when they spoke of Paris, she would murmur: "Ah! How happy we'd be, living there!" "Aren't we happy here?" the young would softly ask, passing his hand over her hair.”

• “First he anointed her eyes, once so covetous of all earthly luxuries; then her nostrils, so gluttonous of caressing breezes and amorous scents; then her mouth, so prompt to lie, so defiant in pride, so loud in lust; then her hands that had thrilled to voluptuous contacts; and finally the soles of her feet, once so swift when she had hastened to slake her desires, and now never to walk again.”

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