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Staring:
Jennifer Jones
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $11.87
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569795068
Format: Closed-captioned, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-03-06
Running Time: 114
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Product Description
The wife of a country doctor seeks happiness through romantic affairs and social climbing in nineteenth-century France.
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Great Movie, 2010-02-07
This is a must see movie, a story that most people can relate to in some form, how we all would like life to be a certain way (but) then reality kicks in, great performances, many great scenes, and the ending, this is a movie that will stick in your mind and heart.
 "Is it a crime to want things to be beautiful?", 2009-12-08
Jennifer Jones got to play two of classic literature's most fascinating heroines during her screen career: Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie", and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
In director Vincente Minnelli's sumptuous 1949 movie version of the Flaubert masterpiece, Jennifer Jones gives one of her most frenzied, haunted performances as the country doctor's young wife whose impossible dreams of wealth and high romance eventually bring ruin and disgrace.
Van Heflin co-stars as Doctor Bovary, with Gladys Cooper, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart; and James Mason (who plays Flaubert himself). Whilst the film looks fantastic in B&W, I'm wondering how much more spectacular it would have been in Technicolor, considering Minnelli's flair in the colour medium ("The Band Wagon", "Ziegfeld Follies", "Lust for Life"). The highlight of the entire movie is the party scene where Emma Bovary's romantic dreams finally come to their climax, scored by one of Miklós Rózsa's most stridant waltz melodies (Minnelli was most proud of this sequence and justifiably-so).
Recommended.
Madame Bovary DVD Reiview, 2010-01-16
This 1949 film is excellent and has a fine score by Miklos Rozsa. The DVD is in 4:3 aspect ratio with very good black-and-white picture.
Surprisingly good!, 2010-02-07
I'm not normally a fan of 'old' movies but as I'd read the book and then some of the reviews for the various versions of the film, I chose this one and was not disappointed. It is black and white which is a downside for me, but it was so true to the book that I could forgive it.
The Best Version of Madame Bovary, 2009-11-29
An extremely well-written and well-presented movie. James Mason's role as the author, in the court scene, is very impressive, bringing out underlying social issues and women's issues. The beauty of Jennifer Jones stands out,and the charm of Louis Jourdan is remarkable. Both their acting skills are phenomenal. Van Heflin brings on the essence of his part of the betrayed and destroyed, but dutiful husband and father. This is one of the best `old' movies from 1949.
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