Elizabeth Olsen

TIFF 2013 | Thérèse (Charlie Stratton, US)—Special Presentation

By José Teodoro The first images are captured from below the murky surface of the Seine, seemingly from the point-of-view of the poor sap who gets drowned by the dunderheaded lover of the film’s unlucky anti-heroine. It makes you wonder whether this workmanlike, mostly faithful revisit of Émile Zola’s brilliantly dreary early novel—the prototype for…
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