ANAÏS DEMOUSTIER

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX (2013)
Starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Stanley Weber, Yves Jacques, Francis Perrin, Isabelle Sadoyan, Catherine Arditi, Jérôme Thibault and Max Morel. Directed by Claude Miller.

When the free spirited Therese agrees to marry her neighbour Bernard Desqueyroux, it is more of a business deal with their two properties becoming one vast estate. Married life in 1920’s provincial France does not to agree with Therese who quickly finds herself stifled not only by the tedium of her surroundings but the intellectual mediocrity of her husband.

Her dreams of a life in Paris and the means to escape there look to become more of a reality when she decides to apply her poisonous outlook in literal terms, lacing her husband’s medicine with arsenic.

REVIEWS Thérèse Desqueyroux - Act of a desperate woman

ELLES (2013)
Starring Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Chyra, Ali Marhyar, François Civil, Jean-Marie Binoche and Pablo Beugnet. Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska.

Mother of two Anne, a journalist for French Elle, leads a perfectly bourgeois life in Paris, juggling family, work and leisure. Her research for an article on student prostitution cracks this serenity, as she meets Alicja, a Polish student whose persona is as troubling as it is seductive, and Charlotte, a somewhat reserved French woman who seems to exercise her trade as part of a bitter social struggle.

THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS
Starring Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Philippe Laudenbach, Sacha Bourdo, Olivier Broche, Françoise Lebrun and Elina Löwensohn. Directed by Sébastien Laudenbach.

In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener and the prince in his castle.

REVIEWS The Girl Without Hands - A dreamily animated survival story