Therese Desqueyroux / Thérèse Desqueyroux / Georges Franju / 1962 / film review

Thérèse Desqueyroux

1962 Drama

Credits

Director: Georges Franju
Script: Georges Franju, Claude Mauriac, François Mauriac (novel)
Photo: Raymond Heil, Christian Matras
Music: Maurice Jarre
Cast: Emmanuelle Riva (Thérèse Desqueyroux), Philippe Noiret (Bernard Desqueyroux), Edith Scob (Anne de la Trave), Sami Frey (Jean Azevedo), Renée Devillers (Mme de la Trave), Jeanne Pérez (Balionte), Hélène Dieudonné (Aunt Clara), Richard Saint-Bris (Hector de la Trave), Jean-Jacques Rémy (Specialist), Jacques Monod (Maître Duros), Lucien Nat (Laroque)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 109 min; B&W
Aka: Thérèse; Therese

Summary

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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