Someone else who "got" Emma is Isabelle Huppert, pictured here in the title role.
Although Flaubert's novel was a denunciation, in part, of the bourgeois attention to materialism, director Claude Chabrol knows how to implicate his audience in Emma's yearnings, as he photographs her beautifully in her increasing levels of finery.
3 comments:
I loved the book and the Isabelle Hubbert film. Still, while Flaubert may "get' Emma, her certainly trashes her and her class roundly.
and such a romantic photo...
I have been meaning to read this book for a long time, you have reminded me to add it to my wish list. Then I will have to see the Claude Chabrol film, it looks visually stunning.
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