Madame Bovary (1949)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Escritores:

Gustave Flaubert (novel)
Robert Ardrey (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 enero 1950 (Sweden)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

All she wanted was everything.

Plot:

A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.

Plot Keywords:

Doctor | Adulteress | Lover | Debt | Author

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Flaubert revisited by Hollywood.

Reparto

Jennifer Jones	...	Emma Bovary
James Mason	...	Gustave Flaubert
Van Heflin	...	Charles Bovary
Louis Jourdan	...	Rodolphe Boulanger
Alf Kjellin	...	Leon Dupuis (as Christopher Kent)
Gene Lockhart	...	J. Homais
Frank Allenby	...	Lheureux
Gladys Cooper	...	Madame Dupuis
John Abbott	...	Mayor Tuvache
Harry Morgan	...	Hyppolite (as Henry Morgan)
George Zucco	...	Dubocage
Ellen Corby	...	Félicité
Eduard Franz	...	Rouault
Henri Letondal	...	Guillaumin
Esther Somers	...	Madame Lefrançois

También conocida como:

La seductora (Chile) [es]
Madame Bovary (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

Argentina:130 min | USA:115 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

The Breen Office opposed the movie, saying that it had too many controversies and innuendo; everything from the makeup to the kissing scenes had be washed down a bit to pass the censors.

Citas:

Charles Bovary: I like everything, I suppose that's what's wrong with me.

Conexiones de Película:

Editado en "Biography: Jennifer Jones: Portrait of a Lady" (2001)

Flaubert revisited by Hollywood.

Three versions stand out as far as Flaubert's classic is concerned:the Jean Renoir one,with Valentine Tessier,which has not worn well,the acting has become unconvincing and almost lurid when you see it today,Minelli's version and Claude Chabrol's starring Isabelle Huppert ,which doesn't avoid totally academism,despite Jean-François Balmer's portrayal of Charles that steals the show . Now for Minelli 's attempt:some have been hard on his rendition,and however,it features the best Emma ever:Jennifer Jones,the romantic heroine par excellence.Her savage beauty,looking tense,triumphs here. The supporting acts are well-chosen:Van Heflin is oafish,meek.The French Louis Jourdan is well-cast as Rodolphe Boulanger,Emma's lover who betrays her and leaves her to despair.Their final confrontation,in Boulanger's luxury mansion oozes hatred and contempt. The main drawback is the rural background:Minelli did not realize how this country life disgusted Emma:the wedding,a very very peasant one ,which Flaubert describes in lavish detail,is too short on the screen.The farms are too clean-Emma dreamed her childhood away because she could not stand the mediocrity of her milieu.She jumped out of the frying pan into the fire:a two-bit doctor,a would-be sawbones who 's totally incompetent.Van Heflin's rendering makes up for Minelli's weaknesses.The movie is sandwiched between two brief scenes of Flaubert 's trial (He was accused of immorality in his book),that's redundant.It would have been better to tell the audience about Emma's daughter's terrible fate:after the doctor's death,an orphan,she becomes a worker in a spinning mill.Supreme decay for a mother who was longing to be a socialite.