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 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.Running Time: 114 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569795068 Manufacturer No: 79506 More...
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