Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anais Demoustier
Director: Claude Miller
Language: French with English Subtitles
Opening: 12 Dec 2013
Runtime: 110 mins
Rating: M18 – Some Sexual Scenes
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.