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Pleasure

A Raunchy Reworking of Flaubert's Madame Bovery
Oct 25, 1994 · 1h 30m
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Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.

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CAST

Jennifer Ehle
Emma Desneuves
Adrian Dunbar
Gustave Coudray
James Larkin
Charles Desneuves
Rosalind Knight
Madame Desneuves
Judith Paris
La Patronne
Robert Austin
Le Patron
Sarah Badel
The Widow
Trevor Byfield
Hotelier
Directed by Ian Sharp

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US
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