An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Acting
Tautou's face does everything dialogue refuses to.
Cinematography
Pine forests as beautiful prison bars.
Direction
Miller's final film, suffocatingly controlled.
Director
Claude Miller
Audrey Tautou
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Gilles Lellouche
Bernard Desqueyroux
Anaïs Demoustier
Anne
Stanley Weber
Jean Azevedo
Yves Jacques
L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
Francis Perrin
Monsieur Larroque
Isabelle Sadoyan
Tante Clara
Catherine Arditi
Madame de la Trave
Jérôme Thibault
Deguilhem
Max Morel
Balion
Françoise Goubert
Balionte
Jean-Claude Calon
Monsieur de la Trave
Alba Gaïa Bellugi
Thérèse Larroque à 15 ans
Matilda Marty
Anne de la Trave à 15 ans
Bernard Lebeau
Ponte Bordeaux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claude Miller died months after completing this, his final film—making Thérèse's isolation feel eerily valedictory.
Based on François Mauriac's 1927 novel, banned by the Vatican for its 'morbid' depiction of bourgeois Catholic life.
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