Word: noiret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bordeaux countryside and the taut, terrible stillness of Thérèse's face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster. Her disaster is Bernard-superbly played by Philippe Noiret as a prudish bourgeois lout whose only concerns are family pride and the valuable pine trees on his estate at Argelouse. Living with him, Thérèse sees no way out until the day he falls ill from an accidental overdose of a medicine containing arsenic. She begins...