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...beautiful but bookish adaptation of Francois Mauriac's 1927 novel owes a lot to the pellucid performance of Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) as a bored young provincial wife who tries to do away with her husband...
...This adaptation of François Mauriac's 1927 novel about a woman who poisons her husband because he is so thoroughly provincial offers visual beauty, literate dialogue, and a truly stunning performance by Emmanuèle Riva, heroine of Hiroshima, Man Amour...
...wrought from François Mauriac's 1927 novel Thérèse Desqueyroux and tells it in old-fashioned cinematic style. It is literate, formal, filmed with impeccable taste. It captures the dark spirit of Mauriac's novel almost too perfectly. Best of all, in Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) it has a vivid Thérèse, that young woman so desperate to escape "the slow, sure, horrible suffocation of provincial life" that she poisons her husband...
...Nobel Prize in 1947 made it official. He was "compelled," he said, to write about his own inner conflicts, "which otherwise would have fought constantly with each other": his Puritan boyhood v. the hedonism he discovered in North Africa; his homosexuality v. his love for his cousin and wife, Emmanuèle; his emancipation from convention v. his search for a personal substitute; his artist's ego v. his social conscience. The conflicts showed in both his literary style and his personal appearance (he kept a Bible in the flowing cape he once affected...
After his mother's death, Gide finally married Cousin Emmanuèele. She is the prototype of characters in several of his books, always as a devoted friend, with a long-suffering piety and a love of God that Gide sometimes found irritating. Em, as Gid e refers to her, is an off-stage character in the Journals. Critic Georges Lemaitre says of Emmanueéle that "when she came to understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died...