Madame Bovary (1949)

Directors

Vincente Minnelli

Cast

Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, James Mason, Christopher Kent, Gene Lockhart

The story

In an 1850s Paris courtroom, author Gustave Flaubert attempts to prevent the banning of his novel Madame Bovary. His accusers have described the book's title character as shocking and immoral. Flaubert counters with a narration of Bovary's story from his own realist perspective.

Genres

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