Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012) ( Therese Desqueyroux )

Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Therese Desqueyroux
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Claude Miller

Written By:
François Mauriac
Claude Miller

Actors:
Audrey Tautou ..... Thérèse Larroque - épouse Desqueyroux
Gilles Lellouche ..... Bernard Desqueyroux
Anaïs Demoustier ..... Anne de la Trave
Catherine Arditi ..... Madame de la Trave
Isabelle Sadoyan ..... Tante Clara
Francis Perrin ..... Monsieur Larroque
Jean-Claude Calon ..... Monsieur de la Trave
Max Morel ..... Balion
Françoise Goubert ..... Balionte
Stanley Weber ..... Jean Azevedo
Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi ..... Thérèse Larroque à 15 a
Matilda Marty-Giraut ..... Anne de la Trave à 15 ans
Gérard Bayle ..... Pedemay
Yves Jacques ..... Maître Duros
Docteur Lebeau ..... Le ponte de Bordeaux

Synopsis:

The year is 1926. In the Landes region, free-spirited Thérèse Larroque, the daughter of a wealthy pinery owner and radical-socialist politician, marries Bernard Desqueyroux, another pinery owner. Although she does it half-heartedly, she thinks that marriage may help her to 'sort out all the ideas in her mind'. But her disappointment is great. Her wedding night is all but fascinating and when she becomes pregnant she realizes the baby matters more to Bernard than herself. While Thérèse stifles in her husband's beautiful residence among stiff in-laws who do not think high of her, ideas keep on roaming her mind.

1926: In the French region of Landes, near Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge property and unite neighbouring families. Thus, young Therese Larroque becomes Madame Desqueyroux. However, her avant-garde ideas soon clash with local conventions and her domineering husband, and in order to break free from the fate imposed upon her she will resort to tragically extreme measures.

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 October, 2013.