Thérèse
MPI Media Group | Release Date: August 23, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanAug 22, 2013
Audrey Tautou trades in Amelie’s wide-eyed sprite look for le sourpuss in this sober yet fascinating take on aristocratic social mores between the wars. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianMarc MohanSep 19, 2013
The movie looks great, with soft-focus shots of perfectly tailored outfits masking the ugliness within. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoAug 29, 2013
While there's a certain staid feeling to the production, it does deliver a solid working-over to the era's gentry. Read full review
60
Time OutMichael AtkinsonAug 20, 2013
Though bourgie audiences looking for a sun-warmed romance will be slapped; the movie may look pretty and may plod, but it also leaves a bruise. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveySep 9, 2013
Serviceable but uninspired. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 31, 2013
With the exception of one heartbreaking and well-acted scene towards the end of the movie, the atmosphere is oppressive and the characters act as if their personalities have been shot with novocaine. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughAug 29, 2013
The film looks great, boasting all the elegant period details that are expected in tasteful French adaptations of treasured national literature, with beautifully photographed Bordeaux landscapes and luxurious interiors. As for the human element, however, the mood is more apathetic than tragic. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsAug 23, 2013
Thérèse never goes beyond that level of psychological complexity because after a point, Miller and Carter aren't interested in exploring the murky depths of Thérèse 's feelings. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenAug 22, 2013
Even given the character's extreme introspection and withdrawal, Tautou's performance is too often opaque. Read full review
50
The DissolveMike D'AngeloAug 22, 2013
Mauriac’s portrait of a society obsessed with family honor and the appearance of propriety at all costs comes through strongly, but that can’t entirely compensate for a character study with a hard-working vacuum at its center. Like Keanu Reeves, Tautou requires a perfect fit; when she tries to stretch, she gets stranded. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNick SchagerAug 21, 2013
A second-act forest fire proves a handy metaphor for Tautou’s slowly burning rage at confinement. Yet while it seems thematically apt, it’s also wholly out of place in this static, emotionless saga, which is defined less by zealous feeling than by a dull, decorous air of respectability. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAaron HillisAug 20, 2013
If the banality of life within the Bordeaux gentry is the point, then the ensuing oppressiveness is immaculately depicted through precise performances and camerawork—just don't call it emotionally engaging drama. Read full review
50
The PlaylistSimon AbramsAug 20, 2013
[Thérèse] is not the nuanced period drama it should be but is rather more like a banal, pseudo-thoughtful and monotonous episode of Masterpiece Theater. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineTomas HachardAug 14, 2013
Claude Miller's swan song not only shares its main character's name but also her tempered disposition. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 22, 2013
Mr. Miller’s stolid approach — with its waxwork figures, postcard beauty, insistent tastefulness and glaze of politesse — feels far too comfortably of this world to mount a critique of it. Read full review
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