DVD 114 IMDB 6.9

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Drama, Romance

Van Heflin	Charles Bovary
Jennifer Jones	Emma Bovary
Louis Jourdan	Rodolphe Boulanger
James Mason	Gustave Flaubert
Gladys Cooper	Madame Dupuis
Gene Lockhart	J. Homais
Frank Allenby	Lheureux
Christopher Kent
Alf Kjellin	Leon Dupuis
John Abbott	Mayor Tuvache
Harry Morgan	Hyppolite

Director	Vincente Minnelli
Producer	Pandro S. Berman
Writer	Robert Ardrey; Gustave Flaubert

All she wanted was everything.

Lovely Emma Bovary longs for romance, glamour, possessions. Wed to a country doctor, she instead gets routine, motherhood and penny-pinching. So when she catches the eye of a handsome aristocrat, Emma risks it all to reach for what she thinks will be happiness.

Jennifer Jones stars in this lush adaptation of the Gustave Flaubert novel that scandalized 19th-century France. The film's capstone is the stunning ballroom scene, contrasting Emma's social success with her husband's failure, culminating in his drunken arrival on the dance floor. In the famed sequence, director Vincente Minnelli skillfully combines, dissolves, cross-cuts, pans, long-takes - a library of techniques - into a seamless triumph of head-spinning gaiety, heart-breaking despair and moviemaking artistry.