In
Secret (2013/Lionsgate DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: C Extras: C Film: B+
Therese
is a young beautiful girl (Elizabeth Olsen) in the late 19th
Century France, where women are raised to be as objects of marriage
and used in trade for political gain, orphaned and adopted by her
scheming Aunt (Jessica Lange). Having little rights they were
treated no better than slaves ...er...ahem, domestic servants. She
is then raised to be to wife of her sickly cousin and forced into a
loveless marriage, but when they moved to the slums of Paris she
meets her husband's childhood artist friend who shows her a world of
sexual passion. How long can they keep their illicit affair a secret
and what would they do to keep it a secret?
In
Charlie Stratton's In Secret (2013), Therese is then tempted
by her husband's artist friend who offers her his robust body, and
begins a secret affair behind her husband and aunt's back. Soon,
they are no long able to live without having sex with each other and
hatch a plot to remove Therese's husband and Aunt. But then after
her husband's 'accidental' death she starts seeing the ghost
of her dead husband and her secret starts falling apart.
This
was an American made French movie, a story drama and forbidden
relationships. It is the story of a young French woman, repressed in
society, trapped in a marriage... DO the math, an affair is gonna
happen. You both sympathize with the character, but bigger question
is ...can you live with murder afterwards? Oscar Isaac and Tom
Felton also star.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is shot in HD on an Arri Alexa
camera with HawkScope lenses and looks pretty good here, making one
wonder how much better a Blu-ray would be, while the lossy Dolby
Digital 5.1 mix is a bit lite and more dialogue-centered than one
would have liked. Extras include deleted scenes, commentary and
trailers.
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Ricky Chiang
