French Film Show: ‘Mrs’ lays bare bourgeois family tensions

The weight of tradition bears heavily on Marianne, the protagonist of the new film “Mrs”, played by Mélanie Thierry as a seemingly perfect wife and mother. Film critic Manon Kerjean explains how director David Roux’s minimalist approach draws on the legacy of bourgeois drama master Claude Chabrol – and why Thierry’s performance carries the film.