Thérèse

Thérèse Desqueyroux
Claude Miller
Part of

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2013

February 28 - March 10, 2013

Audrey Tautou stars as a provincial housewife in 1920s France, whose suffocating marriage to a boorish landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom, in the late director Claude Miller's exquisite adaptation of the classic novel by François Mauriac.

DIRECTOR
Claude Miller
YEAR
2013
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
110 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Thérèse Desqueyroux
START DATE
August 23, 2013

Audrey Tautou stars as a provincial housewife in 1920s France, whose suffocating marriage to a boorish landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom, in the late director Claude Miller's exquisite adaptation of the classic novel by François Mauriac.

Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2012
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival, 2012
Official Selection, Rendezvous with French Cinema, 2013

“Audrey Tautou gives what may be her most powerful screen performance” – Stephen Holden, New York Times
“Elegant and thought-provoking” – Dan Fainaru, Screen International

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