Just over a month before his final film was set to premiere at 2012’s Cannes Film Festival, director Claude Miller sadly passed away at the age of 70. Now a year after its debut, U.S. audiences will finally be able to see the last work from the French director. Ahead of a late August limited release, the domestic trailer for Thérèse has landed.
Featuring Audrey Tautou as a provincial housewife in 1920s France, whose suffocating marriage to a boorish landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom, the film is based on François Mauriac‘s novel. Not to be confused with the upcoming Elizabeth Olsen-led movie of the same name, this one looks to be an elegant, beautifully shot adaptation. Check out the trailer and poster below for the film also starring Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
Synopsis:
Thérèse has married less for love than for convenience, but it is not long before the casual disinterestedness shown her by her arrogant husband, Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), sets her mind in motion. Life is easy at first, as Bernard’s pinewood estates keep them both in the lap of luxury. But when Thérèse’s best friend Anne (Anaïs Demoustier), who also happens to be Bernard’s younger sister, falls madly in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, Thérèse begins to see what she has been missing in her life. Corralled by Bernard’s family into persuading Anne to forego her planned nuptials, she begins to see first-hand the awesome power of passionate love, as Anne will go to any length to keep her lover by her side. Soon, Thérèsebegins her own fight against the oppressive Desqueyroux family.
Thérèse opens on August 23rd.