The enemy brothers interpret the heroes of Flaubert: Bouvard and Pécuchet, two old boys who are introduced to the various sciences and techniques: the purchase of a house in the countryside after a legacy; horticultural work in their area of Chavignolles;
Report at the castle of Breteuil, in the Essonne, on the shooting inside of the film of Claude Chabrol, "Madame Bovary", with Isabelle Huppert in the role of Emma Bovary. Commentary on images of the shooting of the ball sequence, by Claude CHABROL, Isabelle HUPPERT, Jean-François BALMER, Christophe MALAVOY on the set, alternating with interviews with Claude CHABROL, Christophe MALAVOY, Jean-François BALMER.
Claude SANTELLI (cigarette in hand) talks with Paul GUIMARD (cigarette in hand) writer and journalist about the character of Emma BOVARY and its "baseness of heart" and its influence on generations. The mystery in the novel is that one is attached to Emma, the harmony of the encounter with her lover Rodolphe Boulanger. "You have to be misogynistic to love Madame BOVARY," says Paul GUIMARD. Claude SANTELLI compares it to Don Quixote. Françoise VERNY proclaims that she represents grace, "every woman finds herself in Emma’s house, even if she is not as intelligent as one might wish, as I believe I am, I find myself in Emma" because I, too, am always longing in life and in love, other things" - Excerpts from the novel scripted and staged by actors Martine SARCEY, Michael LONSDALE, Claude LOCHY and Claude AUFAURE
Excerpt from an adaptation of the new eponymous by Gustave Flaubert taken from the collection "Trois Contes" published in 1877, the last completed Romanesque production of the author, disappeared three years after this publication. Adapted in a new way by Jacques Mourgeon and directed by Jean Bescont the work is a narrative without dialogue, very "interior", almost a wake story. The actors do not exchange lines, only the voice of the storyteller says the text of Flaubert. The images are there to materialize the reverie in which the reading of this bittersweet story that takes place at the end of the nineteenth century, at Pont-l'Evêque, Honfleur and Trouville, can take place.
Report. After "Madame Bovary", all of Gustave Flaubert’s correspondence is now available on the Internet. More than 4000 written letters that learn a lot about his personality. Explanations and interviews of Yvan LECLERC, researcher at the University of Rouen and Danielle GIRARD, researcher at the Laboratory of Letters at the University of Rouen.
Bernard PIVOT receives the actress Isabelle HUPPERT who plays the role of Emma Bovary in the film of Claude CHABROL adapted from the novel of Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary". The director considers the actress as "the ideal incarnation of Madame Bovary". Isabelle Huppert discovered the novel just before the shooting. She speaks of the psychology of this character; the way Gustave FLAUBERT and Claude CHABROL approached it.
Interview with filmmaker Jean Renoir about his adaptation of Flaubert’s novel, "Madame Bovary", Flaubert’s text and the filming conditions of the film.. Jean RENOIR expresses himself on the text: he is "not responsible for this text which is not the everyday conversation, not a "natural text", which he hates, this "text is good", the shooting in real farms with real accessories, for "an absolute realism of the background"he wanted "actors who play as in good theatre";; at the end, the opinion of Brecht, great reward of this film
International conference in Rouen, on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of "L'éducation sentimentale" by Gustave Flaubert. This symposium is organized by the Faculty of Letters of Rouen, in liaison with Friends of Flaubert. Interview with Marie Claire Bancquart, poet and professor of French literature about the modernity of this novel by Flaubert.
In Chemillé, at the location of the TV movie "Bouvard et Pécuchet", adapted from the eponymous novel of Gustave Flaubert by Jean Claude Carrière, meeting with the two main actors: Michel Carmet, in the role of Pécuchet and Jean Pierre Marielle, in the role of Bouvard expressing themselves on their respective character of employees with scriptures embarking on full experiences following a legacy.
Interview with the writer Gilles Henry, author of a biography of Gustave Flaubert on the writer’s travels to soak up the places where his novels will take place including the Ardennes Abbey near Caen or Palestine and Morocco for "Salammbo".
On the occasion of the filming in Gerberoy of the TV film of Pierre Cardinal, "Madame Bovary' with Nicole Courcel in the role title, interview with the politician and historian Arthur Conte, president of the ORTF about the symbolic choice of this filming location and the political fiction of the ORTF.
On the set of "Madame Bovary" by Claude Charbolen Normandie in Lyons la Forêt, interview with a child, the actor Jean YANNE and Claude CHABROL, director of the film. Jean Yanne evokes his role as pharmacist Monsieur HOMAIS, "a pretentious fool", who takes advantage of the situation, Images of the sets and filming alternating with interviews.
Claude CHABROL makes a film about Madame BOVARY at Lyons la Forêt. Emma is interpreted by Isabelle HUPPERT. Interview Claude CHABROL. Interview with Jean-François BALMER. Film released at the end of March.
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