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Thérèse

Thérèse Desqueyroux

2012

Claude Miller

Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi ...

5.3

1,026

Drama In the Landes region of France, near Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge land parcels and unite neighboring families. Thus, young Thérèse Larroque becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. But her avant-garde ideas clash with local conventions. In order to break free from the fate imposed upon her and live a full life, she will resort to tragically extreme measures...

	Media	Author	Review
		Boyd van Hoeij Variety	"Claude Miller's final film is tastefully upholstered, but the narrative generates little heat, empathy or momentum"
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A classic story competently told, 'Thérèse Desqueyroux' is (...) a perfectly respectable and emphatically French epitaph to Miller's long career"
		Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"Miller's film is a work of emotional reserve, eschewing psychological explanation in favor of unadorned observation - of human behavior as well as nature and the still lifes of the domestic world"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Mr. Miller's stolid approach (...) feels far too comfortably of this world to mount a critique of it."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's an opaque performance from Tautou in many ways, understandably so, and perhaps the film does not fully get inside her mind and heart; a confident, robust work nevertheless. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"

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