THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX (THÉRÈSE) |
In French with English subtitles. REVIEWS …packs enough dramatic weight and literary pedigree to make a box office splash outside France, especially with Audrey Tautou as the story’s iconic anti-heroine. - Stephen Dalton (Hollywood Reporter) Fifty years after George Franju’s adaptation of the Francois Mauriac novel reached the Paris screens, this new version of Thérèse Desqueyroux finally absolves its heroine of her oppressing guilt and allows her to stroll scot free through the streets of Paris. - Dan Fainaru (Screen Daily) 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. - Louise Keller (Urban Cinefile) |
Bordeaux, the 1920’s. Thérèse (Audrey Tautou, in a rare dramatic role - also starring in DELICACY playing this year at the SFFF) is married off to her neighbor, the spineless Bernard Desqueyroux, in order to consolidate their two families’ fortunes. Terribly bored, the restless but passive Thérèse could fall into adultery, like a 20th century Madame Bovary. But what she chooses to do instead could bring scandal to both families, unless they close ranks... THÉRÈSE, Claude Miller’s final film before his passing, is based on Nobel Prize-winner Francois Mauriac’s most famous novel. THÉRÈSE was finished just before Miller’s health declined. It was unveiled as the closing night event at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Shown with Fille du Calvaire by Stéphane Demoustier. CLOSING FILM Sunday, June 28 - 7:45pm |
