Therese (DVD)

Audrey Tautou (Amelie) stars in famed director Claude Millers (A Secret) final film, a gorgeously photographed adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Franois Mauriacs 1927 novel about one womans fight for love against the social norms of French provincial life. In the pine-forested Landes region in southwest France, young Therse (Tautou) has married wealthy but arrogant Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche, Little White Lies) and is now part of the oppressively traditionalist Desqueyroux family. Although able to live in the lap of luxury, Therse soon realizes that her role is to be forever subservient to Bernard and act as little more than his accessory. When her best friend (and Bernards younger sister) Anna (Anas Demoustier, Time of the Wolf) falls madly in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, Therse is tasked by the family to persuading Anna to forego her planned nuptials. But as she witnesses first-hand Annas passionate determination to keep her lover by her side, Therse finds he