![]() Emma, throughout the picture-throughout her unhappy life-is the victim of her hopeless illusions, the silt of a romantic age. Mason's voice tenderly remarks.And this understanding of the lady is beautifully and tenderly put forth in the patient unfolding of the story which a cohort of talents has contrived. "We had taught her to believe in Cinderella," Mr. Thus it has made it specific that Emma Bovary's tragic career was not the result of willful sinning by a selfish and licentious dame but was the consequence of her environment, her upbringing and her childish dreams. Mason speak a virtual preface to the work and offer occasional commentaries as an off-screen voice as the story unreels. ![]() For not only is this picture a faithful transcription of the tale of the misguided nineteenth-century housewife who rushed down the primrose path to ruin, but Metro has actually put it in the form of an open defense.With James Mason playing the author on trial, at the start of the film, for writing this "infamous" novel-as, indeed, Flaubert actually was-the studio has had Mr. If such a thing were needed in this candid day and age as a moral defense of "Madame Bovary," the classic novel of Gustave Flaubert, then Metro's handsome film version, which came to the Capitol yesterday, would be precisely the item to turn this unlikely trick.
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