JEUDI CINÉMA: THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX
In May, we are taking you on a cinematographic journey with Thérèse Desqueyroux, an accomplished yet startling movie. French director Claude Miller turned François Mauriac’s eponymous novel into a visual masterpiece, in which the characters are consumed by their inner fires.
We cordially invite you to be our guest for this private screening on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 7PM, at Alliance Française du Manitoba.
Thérèse Desqueyroux is an intriguing and astonishing film supported by the profound acting of Gilles Lellouche and Audrey Tautou.
*Screened in French with English Subtitles.
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Storyline: The year is 1926. In the Landes region, free-spirited Thérèse Larroque, the daughter of a wealthy pine forest owner and radical-socialist politician, marries Bernard Desqueyroux, another pine forest 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 she does 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…
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