Then the trio moves into Paris, where Camille becomes an office clerk while the women run a fabric shop. They even share a bed, which gives ideas only to Therese.Īfter Camille and Therese grow up to be Tom Felton and Elizabeth Olsen, Madame Raquin announces that the two will marry. She accepts her motherless niece into their suburban home, but Therese must live the same closed-in life as her perpetually feverish cousin. Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange) dotes on her sickly son, Camille. Renamed to distinguish it from last year's film of Francois Mauriac's Therese, In Secret begins in a claustrophobic household. In fact, writer-director Charlie Stratton's retelling of Zola's shocker was derived in part from the stage version by Neal Bell. With its small cast of characters and limited number of locations, the book does lend itself to dramatization. The novel's plot is utter melodrama, though, and that's the aspect emphasized by In Secret, the latest in a century-long string of film and TV adaptations. Emile Zola was one of the founders of naturalism, and his first major work, 1867's Therese Raquin, is full of precise physical description.
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