A woman (Therese) brought up by an aunt and more or less forced to marry her whiny sickly pasty fleshed cousin (Camille) has resigned herself to a dull gray loveless life working in a small fabric shop owned by her mother in law. Through accident she meets Laurent who makes a play for her and becomes her lover.
This love affair intensifies and Laurent pressures Therese to leave Camille...there is a confrontation between the members of this triangle on a train and Camille is accidentally killed when an enraged Laurent pushes him off the train in a scuffle.
His death is ruled accidental and all would seem to be OK until a witness shows up to blackmail the couple.
The movie presents the essential theme of the original Zola novel. In the book the lovers grow to hate each other as they wait for things to cool down after Camille's death (they drown him) and there is much more twisted psychological drama between them and the mother in law.
However this is a tight nice story in this form and the movie has 3 attractive good actors and is suspenseful fun entertainment.
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This love affair intensifies and Laurent pressures Therese to leave Camille...there is a confrontation between the members of this triangle on a train and Camille is accidentally killed when an enraged Laurent pushes him off the train in a scuffle.
His death is ruled accidental and all would seem to be OK until a witness shows up to blackmail the couple.
The movie presents the essential theme of the original Zola novel. In the book the lovers grow to hate each other as they wait for things to cool down after Camille's death (they drown him) and there is much more twisted psychological drama between them and the mother in law.
However this is a tight nice story in this form and the movie has 3 attractive good actors and is suspenseful fun entertainment.
RECOMMEND