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Overview
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a French film first released in 1962,
directed by Georges Franju.
The film is based on a novel by François Mauriac and stars Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey and Renée Devillers.
It has also been released under the title: Thérèse.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard,
by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that
will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his
wife’s acquittal. When Thérèse is returning to her
home in Argelouse, she brings to mind the events that led to her
present predicament. She recalls her happy adolescence with her
friend, Anne, whose half-brother she ended up marrying. It was
not to be a happy marriage, though. Bernard’s only preoccupations
were his name and fortune, and these led him to break up Anne’s love
affair with a Jewish man. When Bernard began taking medicine
containing arsenic, Thérèse saw an opportunity for her to
escape from her miserable existence, by killing the man she has grown
to despise...
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