This THERESE is the real deal!
THERESE DESQUEYROUX of 2012 is a masterful French film based on the Francois Mauriac 20th C French masterpiece of the same name. It was an experience of true significance, one I won't soon forget. Audrey Tatou and the entire cast is exceptional. It was kept as the period in which Mauriac wrote the novel which pleased me a great deal. I remember reading this brilliant work as an under-graduate. Knowing it as well as I do, I understood I'd be hyper-critical if it diverged from Mauriac's thesis. I needn't have any worries. The feature (was) is masterful.
In 2013, Hollywood produced IN SECRET with Elisabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Lange based on the exact same material, a practice it does all too often with European masterpieces. It was acceptable, but literally the very same thing taking into account that the Mauriac novel is such a very slight volume. I rated it a 6 as the lead players were exceptional.
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