Thérèse Raquin is a sexually repressed beautiful young woman trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, and forced into it by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Thérèse spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominoes with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent LeClaire, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.
Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominoes with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.
“Director Charlie Stratton wraps his adaptation in the appropriate period dress of Zola’s era. “In Secret” is a costume drama with a gigantic accent on the drama. It’s my kind of crazy, and I was quite entertained. To borrow again from Shakespeare, ‘Tis Madness, but there’s method to’t’.”- Odie Henderson for rogerebert.com
Starring Oscar Isaac, Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange.
Rated R for sexual content and brief violent images.