Marcel Carne has conceived a brilliant but curiously cold film. Story of illicit love in a lower-class bourgeois setting is done with a care that that removes its melodramatic aspects and makes it an ...

Critics have gone after Tobias Picker for not writing a powerful enough score for his opera “Therese Raquin,” which finished a four-performance run over the weekend at San Diego Opera. That is not ...

Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a truckdriver, Laurent ...

It was with a trepidatious forefinger that I wiped the dust from the top edge of my copy of Thérèse Raquin and looked at the ownership date: 1969. I had taken the novel down because Thérèse Raquin the ...

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands ...