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Thérèse Desqueyroux ( French pronunciation: [teʁɛz dɛskɛʁu]) is a 1927 French novel by François Mauriac . Plot. The novel is set in the Landes, a sparsely populated area of south-west France covered largely with pine forests. As it opens, a court case is being dismissed.
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a 2012 French drama film directed by Claude Miller, based on the 1927 novel of the same name by François Mauriac. The film stars Audrey Tautou and Gilles Lellouche. It closed the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened out of competition.
Thérèse Desqueyroux [teʁɛz deskeʁuː] 1 est un livre de François Mauriac paru en 1927. En 1950, ce roman fut inclus dans la liste du Grand prix des Meilleurs romans du demi-siècle 2. Il a été aussi adapté au cinéma en 1962 par Georges Franju et en 2012 par Claude Miller . Résumé du roman.
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Nobel-prize winner François Mauriac's masterpiece is Thérèse Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amélie actress Audrey Tautou. Show more.
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Nov 21, 2012 · 'Thérèse Desqueyroux' is a French drama set in the 1920s in which Audrey Tautou, as the titular Thérèse, is content to play the iconoclast in her stuffy husband's family. But when her best friend (also her sister-in-law) describes her passionate relationship with an attractive young Portuguese man, Thérèse's emotions take a more sinister ...
A novel by François Mauriac about a woman who tries to poison her husband and is acquitted by a legal trick. The novel explores her motives, her family background and her fate after the trial.
Apr 30, 2002 · In Therese Desqueyroux, Therese tries desperately to remember why she married her husband; she loves him, both for himself, and what he stands for - property, family, security - but the passion which she would have imagined she had felt is unavailable to her.
