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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.



- Ricky Chiang


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