Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)
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78% of critics liked it
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90% want to see it
(258 ratings)
François Mauriac's legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller in his final film. Sumptuously photographed to capture the full beauty of the pine-forested Landes area in southwest France, THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX is a… More François Mauriac's legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller in his final film. Sumptuously photographed to capture the full beauty of the pine-forested Landes area in southwest France, THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX is a beautifully conceived drama of exquisite taste. Marvelously played by the luminous Audrey Tautou, Thérèse is a heroine hewn from the same stock as Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina, suffocated by her provincial marriage. Thérèse has married less for love than for convenience, but it is not long before the casual disinterestedness shown her by her arrogant husband, Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), sets her mind in motion. Life is easy at first, as Bernard's pinewood estates keep them both in the lap of luxury. But when Thérèse's best friend Anne (Anaïs Demoustier), who also happens to be Bernard's younger sister, falls madly in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, Thérèse begins to see what she has been missing in her life. Corralled by Bernard's family into persuading Anne to forego her planned nuptials, she begins to see first-hand the awesome power of passionate love, as Anne will go to any length to keep her lover by her side. Soon, Thérèse begins her own fight against the oppressive Desqueyroux family.(c) MPI Media
- Directed By
- Claude Miller, Georges Franju
- Written By
- Francois Mauriac, Georges Franju, Claude Mauriac
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 23, 2013 Limited
- Studio
- MPI Media
Critic Reviews
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Blake Howard, 2UE That Movie Show
THERESE DESQUEYROUX is an early feminist suffrage text, except instead of the heroine suffering it's the audience.
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Jim Schembri, 3AW
A boring French film about boring French people...sadly the final film by veteran director Claude Miller.
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Ed Gibbs, The Sunday Age
A respectable swansong for the late Claude Miller, who passed away just weeks before it premiered at Cannes.
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Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
In many respects the film is a farewell to cinema from Claude Miller, suitably hushed in tone, aptly circling death and notably classical in its approach, from camera to mis en scene to performances
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Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile
An exquisite portrait of a free spirit, stifled in a marriage of convenience, Thérèse D. plays like a beautiful melody whose main voice is the silent counterpoint that reflects the yearning of a woman quashed
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Cast
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Emmanuelle Riva
as Therese Desqueyroux
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Philippe Noiret
as Bernard Desqueyroux
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Edith Scob
as Anne de la Trave
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Sami Frey
as Jean Azevedo
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Renee Devillers
as Mme. de la Trave
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Lucien Nat
as Jerome Larroque
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Jacques Monod
as Duros
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Jeanne Pérez
as Balionte
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Richard Saint-Bris
as Hector de la Trave
- Audrey Tautou
- Gilles Lellouche
- Anaïs Demoustier
- Catherine Arditi
- Isabelle Sadoyan
- Stanley Weber
- Jérôme Thibault
- Renée Devilliers
