SecondLate summer of 1933. For the first French film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Madame Bovary”, Jean Renoir, the son of the Impressionist Auguste Renoir, was with friends in the Norman farmhouse Lyon La Foret Reunited with family. His nephew Claude is a photographer. Edited by Renoir’s partners. Renoir’s brother Pierre, father of the famous actor and photographer Claude at the time, plays the horny country doctor Charles Bovary.
The role of the title hero is occupied by Valentine Tessier. The 41-year-old actress is mature enough to play the roles of a boring doctor wife, adultery and suicide, and has recently established a relationship with Gaston Gallimard. The publisher is also the producer of the film and insists on letting his mistress take the lead. As we all know: A year ago, it was not Valentin Tesir and Gaston Gallimard, but Pierre Renoir and the actress. No one doubts: life can be more colorful than any movie, even if the greatest scandal novel in French literature-the promising subtitle “The Morality of the Province”-provides the material for the screen. During the filming process, the former lovers got close again, making Lyon Laforet once again become a couple in love. cut.
Fields, forests and meadows Normandy
Nearly 90 years later, the course “Madame Bovary, the Secret of the Game” has more than a dozen radio stations and the same number of large-format photos, reminiscent of the shooting of Leon Laforet. There is no trace of a romantic drama on the set. Valentine Tessier gazed at the void with a silent movie-like dramatic gaze. Pierre Renoir obediently listened to his brother Jean’s stage guidance. This movie was not a success. The abandoned Galimad cut the finished version because of anger and revenge, so that Pierre Renoir was declassified as a secondary character, and the plot seemed to be a disconnected sequence.
I also chose in 1990 Claude Chabrol The dollhouse-like village in the fields, forests and meadows of Normandy east of Rouen served as the background for his version of “Madame Bovary.” Chabrol created a masterpiece under the leadership of Isabelle Huppert, and achieved greater success at the box office-the scene photos taken this time also appeared in the “Madame Bovary, the competition’s Secret” course. Renoir can easily turn Lyon-La Foret into the fictional Jonville Abbey in Flaubert’s novels. Chabrol had to help. Where the asphalt disturbed the overall situation, Chabrol piled up sand. If a modern shop sign destroys this illusion, a horse-drawn cart full of hay bales will stop in front of it. Otherwise, the settings are correct and are still correct to this day. In Lyons-la-Forêt, although the half-timbered buildings are curved, they are well preserved. The cobblestone streets surround a castle hill that has long since disappeared. The main square is dominated by a four-hundred-year-old market hall, and the place name sign bears the label of “the most beautiful village in France”. This only applies to well-preserved townscapes. With Chabrol’s film, Lyon La Follette eventually became the village where Madame Bovary stumbled towards the abyss also ensured its success as a magnet for tourists away from the coast.
