As part of the summer cinema and the Great French Actresses series, the Instituto Francés is screening the film Madame Bovary, by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert, in its High Courtyard tomorrow Friday at 22:00.
Adapted from Gustave Flaubert’s novel of the same name, Emma Bovary is the dissatisfied wife of a country doctor who longs to belong to French high society. Her ambitions and a passionate affair with a young aristocrat lead her into a situation with tragic consequences. Chabrol’s muse, Isabelle Huppert, plays the fatal heroine. Huppert is one of France’s most prolific actresses (two or three films a year on average) and one of the few French performers whose filmography is truly international: her demanding and renowned career has taken her to the United States, Italy, Russia, Central Europe and even Asia. On 25 November 2020, the New York Times named her the second best actress of the 21st century (behind Denzel Washington). Tickets can be purchased at this link.
