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| Madame Bovary |
The New York Times' Vincent Canby quibbled that "the pretty, freckled, reddish-blond Isabelle Huppert, who plays Emma [Bovary], doesn't look at all like Flaubert's dark-haired heroine"... Chabrol saw beyond cosmetic details in casting Huppert as the wilful but ultimately thwarted anti-heroine of Gustave Flaubert's justly famous novel.
Huppert likened Emma Bovary to "an idealist.a feminist without knowing it". Her Emma is at once coquettish, exasperating, pitiless (towards her self as much as others) and ultimately deeply affecting.
