Therese

"Therese" is a profound psychological study of a woman trapped by the suffocating conventions of provincial life and a loveless marriage. Written by Nobel Prize-winning author Francois Mauriac, this landmark work delves into the dark interiority of Thérèse Desqueyroux, a woman who is acquitted of the attempted murder of her husband but finds herself condemned to a life of social and emotional exile. Set against the desolate, pine-forested landscape of the Landes region in France, the narrat...