Therese

"Audrey Tautou stars in famed director Claude Miller's final film, a gorgeously photographed adaptation of Franois Mauriac's legendary 1927 novel about one woman's fight for love against the social norms of French provincial life.

In the pine-forested Landes region in southwest France, young ThŽrse (Tautou) has married wealthy but arrogant Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche) and is now part of the oppressively traditionalist Desqueyroux family. Although able to live in the lap of luxury, ThŽrse soon realizes that her role is to be forever subservient to Bernard. When her best friend Anna (Ana•s Demoustier) falls madly in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, ThŽrse is tasked to persuade Anna to forego her planned nuptials. But as she witnesses first-hand Anna's passionate determination to keep her lover by her side, ThŽrse finds her own desire growing and soon sets out to free herself from the provincial conventions that threaten to keep her forever repressed."