Thérèse Desqueyroux

• 2012
• 01h 50min
• Drama

Thérèse (*Audrey Tautou*), wife of Deysqueyroux, has a hard time trying to impose her avant-garde ideas of freedom onto her marriage. When her best friend and sister-in-law finds true love, the family counts on her to make Thérèse see reason: marriage is for strengthening alliances between the upper classes and not about letting feelings destroy everything – certainly not the family business. Unable to stand her marriage to a simple man (*Gilles Lellouche*), who's happy to spend time doing nothing and satisfied with what he considers a successful union, Thérèse decides to poison him. After that insane act, the young woman finds herself even more muzzled than before, completely imprisoned by suffocating social conventions...