Desc: Madame Bovary: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne. In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.