Anna, a stay-at-home mom stifled by the tedium of domestic life, becomes obsessed with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and yearns for her own grand romance. In a bid to escape her loneliness she splurges her savings on fashion and cosmetics and arranges a secret tryst, only to find that reality can never match her daydreams, and she must choose between her fantasies and her family.
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April 10, 1977
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1h 20m
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Anna, a stay-at-home mom stifled by the tedium of domestic life, becomes obsessed with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and yearns for her own grand romance. In a bid to escape her loneliness she splurges her savings on fashion and cosmetics and arranges a secret tryst, only to find that reality can never match her daydreams, and she must choose between her fantasies and her family.
