Madame Bovary

1991 · 143 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 4,679 VOTES · DIR. Claude Chabrol

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Overview

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,870 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:39 Are you the doctor?
00:07:40 This one too.
00:15:56 He asked us for some cherry-tree cuttings.
00:24:53 Would you be sad...
00:29:12 and from the west by St. Jean's Hill.
00:34:25 I have to keep washing her.
00:38:37 I've always got on well with the ladies.
00:43:08 Oh, indeed! workers in the towns, for example.
00:47:41 I have my coat.
00:53:09 Should I pick one?
00:56:59 but that deep and moderate intelligence...
01:01:26 Say it to me.
01:08:32 What glory for Yonville.
01:13:59 There's black liquid and it's swollen to the knee.
01:20:15 Why buy me presents?
01:24:27 Your friend, Rodolphe. "
01:31:39 Business isn't the same here as in Paris.
01:36:25 Not here anyway.
01:42:30 he was in such a state!
01:47:14 Are you mad?
01:51:39 But couldn't you...
01:56:45 Often on a summer's day.
02:01:54 So have I, Emma. Such is life.
02:07:36 I'll fall asleep...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,870
Dialogue density13.1 lines / min
First line00:00:39
Final line02:07:36

Production Record

DirectorClaude Chabrol
LanguageFrench
Revenue$1,942,423
IMDb votes4,679