Emma Bovary is the dreamy, frustrated, unfaithful wife of a French country doctor in this National Emmy-nominated adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece.

Flaubert's story of the quest for fulfillment in love is an enduring classic. By marrying a local doctor, Emma Bovary feels that she will escape her provincial upbringing. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life, ignoring her devoted husband and daughter and immersing herself in romantic thoughts which lead, inevitably, to affairs.

Romantic, tragic and, at times, comic, Flaubert's story of the quest for fulfilment in love is an enduring classic. Madame Bovary is beautifully portrayed in this subtle and engaging adaptation. By marrying a local doctor, Emma Bovary feels that she will escape her provincial upbringing. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life, ignoring her devoted husband and daughter and immersing herself in romantic thoughts which lead, inevitably, to affairs.

Romantic, tragic and, at times, comic, Flaubert's story of the quest for fulfilment in love is an enduring classic. By marrying a local doctor, Emma Bovary feels that she will escape her provincial upbringing. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life, ignoring her devoted husband and daughter and immersing herself in romantic thoughts which lead to affairs. Starring Frances O'Connor and Hugh Bonneville.

Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece was the first book ever to expose the plight of frustrated housewives throughout the centuries. Published in 1857, the story was so shocking that the scandal spread throughout France and ultimately resulted in the author's prosecution for immorality. By marrying Charles, a local doctor, Flaubert's heroine Emma Bovary feels that she will escape her provincial upbringing. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life, ignoring her devoted husband and daughter and immersing herself in romantic thoughts that lead, inevitably, to affairs. First it is a young student, Léon, who captures her imagination; but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the affair with body and soul. Gustave Flaubert's colourful range of characters all shape Emma's tragic destiny - from her repr...