Therese Desqueyroux

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. Written by Guy Bellinger. This excellent film, like the novel, has a challengingly "modern", existential feel, with themes that bring it closer to the ideas of Camus and Sartre than many of Mauriac's other works. Perhaps too "real" to be hugely dramatic, but real enough to be compelling and fascinating.

Gilles Lellouche plays husband Bernard to perfection, too, with just the right amount of odious materialism and hypocrisy, combined with a tinge of genuine sympathy. He genuinely can't comprehend his wife and her actions, and responds in the way that he thinks best. The movie is beautifully and atmospherically shot - the best compliment I can pay is that it looks just how I imagined it when I read the book. Plus it made me want to read the novel again, because it reminded me just how powerful and "modern" a work it is.

Despite the film's length, there are no "longueurs" boring bits , and the plot feels surprisingly tight given the lack of action.

Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac

So watch this film, enjoy the "look", and be surprised and challenged by the characters and their motivations, and by just how modern Mauriac's ideas were, way back in the s. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

Full Cast and Crew. An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures. Share this Rating Title: Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Season 5 This Is Us: Season 3 Saturday Night Live: Season 4 The Walking Dead: Renewed and Cancelled TV Shows View All Photos Life is easy at first, as Bernard's pinewood estates keep them both in the lap of luxury.

Corralled by Bernard's family into persuading Anne to forego her planned nuptials, she begins to see first-hand the awesome power of passionate love, as Anne will go to any length to keep her lover by her side. Natalie Carter , Claude Miller. Audrey Tautou as Therese. Gilles Lellouche as Bernard. Catherine Arditi as Madame de la Trave. Isabelle Sadoyan as Tante Clara. Francis Perrin as Monsieur Larroque. Jean-Claude Calon as Monsieur de la Trave. Max Morel as Balion. Stanley Weber as Jean Azevedo. Matilda Marty-Giraut as Anne 15 ans. Jack Delbalat as Arzt. September 6, Rating: August 29, Rating: August 23, Rating: August 22, Rating: October 31, Rating: Anne aspetta solo di avere dei figli per annullarsi in loro, come ha fatto sua madre, come fanno tutte le donne della famiglia.

Io, invece, bisogna sempre che mi ritrovi; tento in ogni modo di raggiungere me stessa. Ma io, ma io View all 10 comments. Come introdurlo in quei nebulosi territori dove Therese ha vissuto, ha sofferto? Si costringe a considerare il suo enigma. Deve inoltrarsi tra il fango dei sentieri bui della sua mente, lei che ha accettato, sposandosi, di seppellirsi ai confini del mondo. Nelle sue fantasie notturne Therese immagina una possibile vita a Parigi. Affascinava con il suo racconto una cerchia di persone dai volti attenti, ma per nulla stupiti. Un letterato la prendeva da parte: View all 8 comments.

I know nothing of love save that it is the constant object of my desire, a desire that possesses me and blinds me, setting my feet on the ways of the waste land, dashing me against the walls, forcing me into bogs and quagmires, stretching me exhausted in the muddy ditches of life. The trees where she suffered alone moan that is human. Mauriac is right that it is a huge family, the unresting, and a recognition would burn like an outbreak of forest fire.

I don't I know nothing of love save that it is the constant object of my desire, a desire that possesses me and blinds me, setting my feet on the ways of the waste land, dashing me against the walls, forcing me into bogs and quagmires, stretching me exhausted in the muddy ditches of life. I don't believe it is as easy as saying no to the oppression of life. It isn't a choice to be happy. The suffocating husband Bernard is smugly snug in his bed that no one lies in another they didn't make. Time she doesn't have.

Hell is decisions too late. Bernard was a cold lover. I've been reading a lot of books lately that recall the selfish new husband in David Lean's film Ryan's Daughter. When I get married my dream lover will this is it? The pitchforked everyone else come along too. How dare she want anything else?!

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I don't know how she accepted the shallow waters of convent friend, and Bernard's half-sister, Anne, as affection. Indeed, she must have maintained her stream of pious instruction as self assurance that she knew what she was in for. People like Anne and her father she can grace with nothing they needed her to give them so long as they are absent. I think there's a truth closer to when she is before the judgement. Won't play sports, nose in books. Something akin to the person who can't let you down as rock shoulders of seashell oceans.

If you went to flesh and blood and stone wouldn't let you in. Worse if every day went on without you in a foreign language of peace.

I have found that I feel relief from something that knows though it's true that I have to have them all of the time. It is constant getting up that cannot be called on to see you.

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She allows her husband to overdose himself, acts against her prison. Run away, run away, run away! It's that film "Bed-nobs and broomsticks" and she's drifting in her too late in a sky of cold beds, with strange heads of sleep she can't catch up. I wanted her to end it all, couldn't see that it was worth living in her home prison and nothing else. Bernard sees her emaciated living corpse and instead of his wife it is a picture of female inmates in his vision. There's some truth between this, the closest she gets to a reprieve, and knowing the prison of her husband's immovable fatness of himself.

Their family are sitting on her. To wish she had run away. To see the danger in the prison shells.

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That was pretty great this reality of what happened and what didn't have to happen. Don't do it, don't get married, don't have a baby. Don't get on the sides of mercy. How can he believe that and also believe in that she isn't alone? It gave me a perverse pleasure when the high and mouse Anne is knocked down from her the world is too big for me and the empty suit that suits my romantic vision.

The young man who loves to hear himself talk never loved her. What is Marie winning by keeping the first and only life she imagines in marrying Georges? He doesn't want to marry her, tells her again and again that she will not be his life. What is this complete ownership that doesn't breed its own darkness? It made me happy that she is not "set". I don't know why it made me so happy. Really, I feel impatient hearing love plans, resent not being allowed to do what I want to scratch my soul's itching.

I wanted to cry. She doesn't live anywhere realer than them, though. Where when the person who understands you is enough. That it would take away the inconsolable ache, the I don't know what to do when the nights are too long.

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Whenever anyone has told me that I made them feel less alone I'd feel sick for the impending drop. I can't do anything and feeling those same feelings of loneliness and darkness isn't ever enough. I'm a dripping blanket, unable to uplift anyone else. What else do you DO after you've admitted to not knowing what to do? Why isn't acceptance enough? I want to cry how bleeding unfair it is that it is never enough to be. They only care about her to stand in the way of reality of family who say no to their this marriage is gonna set me for life shit.

But what would have happened if one of those drunks attached to a deaf bench had had proof of light in making through another day? What if the old Aunt Clara had once entered the room when her niece wanted her to be there? And all I could think of for her to do was to say fuck it to the whole thing. If there was peace in doing that then go ahead and do that.

When I was very young my mother railed at me for my ability to be happy in "worthless" things like books and movies. She would have had only accepted the Marie kind of world of cleaving to a husband and no one else exists. I had to get into a really good book to not feel sick about her anymore, I remember, but I did it. Flip no was it Georges fault that that young man died, either. If it is her choice, then it is their choice. I think people are torn between what it looks like all gone to hell. I think there's more than you are where you want to be when people can want opposing ends.

To live your life and to see the end. If she corrupts, then they corrupt. Mauriac wrote more of her ending, a spiritual kind of acceptance that she couldn't feel in her human family. He consulted a real life priest about it and everything, but only after. I'm glad it isn't included. Watching her sleep like she did with baby Marie feels right to me. Mas eu, mas eu Quando um ser do sexo feminino deseja uma coisa, vive, agoniza, morre para a obter.

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View all 4 comments. Jul 13, Corinne rated it liked it Shelves: In this brief novel boiling with tension, we see the inner conflicts of the type in Madam Bovary or Anna Karenina, but a lot more compressed and intense. A deeply flawed character, Therese, keeps us engaged, because Mauriac has skillfully transferred her point of view upon us, so we are with her even if we know she is doing something unethical. There is a new movie version of this book but I always want to read the book first.