Word: emmanual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...