Released Date:
2012-11-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (2486 Reviews)
Director:
Claude MillerGenres:
DramaFranèois Mauriac (novel)
Claude Miller (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Natalie Carter (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
The year is 1926. In the Landes region, free-spirited Thèrèse 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 Thèrèse stifles in her husband's beautiful residence among stiff in-laws who do not think high of her, ideas keep on roaming her mind.
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