A melancholic French film (2012) starring Audrey Tautou of Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain fame as Thérèse. The story is set during the 1920's in the Aquitaine region where important rich families are still very catholic and maintain a culture of hypocrisy and stifling conventions. Thérèse chooses a marriage of convenience, whereby the land holdings of two important families will be joined.
However, she suffers from boredom and a faint disgust of her boring and traditional husband. When she gets the opportunity, she tries to poison him but gets found out almost immediately. Rather than face public humiliation, the family decides to cover up the whole affair.
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| Thérèse and her husband Bernard |
However, she suffers from boredom and a faint disgust of her boring and traditional husband. When she gets the opportunity, she tries to poison him but gets found out almost immediately. Rather than face public humiliation, the family decides to cover up the whole affair.
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