Synopsis
Thérèse Raquin (1953) is a French crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Marcel Carné with Simone Signoret and Raf Vallone in the lead roles. Based on Émile Zola's 1867 novel.
Thérèse has spent years suffocating inside a loveless marriage to her spineless cousin Camille, while his domineering mother runs both the household and the draper's shop below it. When long-distance truck driver Laurent arrives, the suffocation turns to obsession. The two conspire to push Camille from a moving train — and the moment it is done, everything unravels. A blackmailer moves in. Camille's mother, who saw more than she let on, wages a silent campaign that no locked door can stop.
Carné strips Zola's naturalist novel down to a tight, bleak thriller. Signoret carries the film on sheer moral weight — Thérèse is impossible to root for and impossible to look away from. Stream Thérèse Raquin (1953) online on iFILM.
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