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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000412
Author:PETE CLARK

THERE'S costume drama, and there's get your costumes off for the lads drama. Madame Bovary (BBC2), loosely adapted from a slim novel by Gustave Flaubert, falls, or more precisely tumbles, into the latter category. From the very first scene, where a young Emma is observed watching some fetishis-tic ceremony in her convent involving prostrate virgins, it was possible to detect that she was a goer. She quite evidently had a dirty mind where her mouth was.

What Emma was doing in a convent in the first place defied rational explanation. When a nun disclosed to her nun chum that shocking ...

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