Madame Bovary

2000 • Leon

DIRECTOR: Tim Fywell
WRITER(S): Heidi Thomas (screenplay), Gustave Flabuert (novel)
PRODUCER(S): Cahal Bannon, Rebecca Eaton, Bernard Krichefski, Tony Redston, Hilary Salmon, David M. Thompson
AIR DATE: January 13, 2001
DISTRIBUTOR(S): BBC
LOCATIONS: France and Hertfordshire, England

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.