Thérèse

(2012)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 116 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2012

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: France

Director: Claude Miller

Cast: Одри Тоту, Жиль Леллуш, Анаис Демустье, Стэнли Вебер, Yves Jacques, Франсис Перрен, Isabelle Sadoyan, Catherine Arditi, Jérôme Thibault, Max Morel

Plot

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.

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.