Last day of the festival was definitely not the best day in terms of weather and the movie actually started very late! even though, it was for a good reason. In fact, I liked the short movie from Melies we got to watch with the music being played in front of us and story narrarated I found it interesting.
I chose Therese Desqueyroux because I loved Audrey Tautou in "Coco avant chanel" which was also a drama but also because I wanted to watch two different genres. This movie was all that I expected, sad, a lot of understatements, complex characters, crudity everything that a good drama is expected to have . It was very well acted. The story was a sad but relatively true one because it is known that during that period of time arranged marriages were the preferred form of marriage in many societies and France was not an exception.It depicts strong, I would say, aristocratic family values and norms in so many ways. For example, the fact that the family’s honor and name should not compromised at all cost. I also liked how my hypotheses of the rest of the movie at some point were not true because I do not like knowing ahead of time what’s coming in a movie. The movie involved a bit of ‘ reading between the lines’ and “walking in the character shoes” especially when trying to understand her motive for wanting her husband dead. The last scene was a total ‘deja vue’ but it was my favorite scene because she was finally free to be her complicated, free spirited, mysterious self. Overall, great great drama.
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