Gabrielle is Patrice Chreau's stunning adaptation of the short story ""The Return"" by Joseph Conrad. Recreating turn-of-the-century France with superb attention to detail Chreau casts an unrelenting gaze on the marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle-aged bourgeois couple played with chilling precision by Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory. As wealthy Parisian Mr. Hervey (Greggory) descends from a train into the teeming bustle of the city. While on his way home he reflects on the sturdiness and success of his life and the fortress of security he has built... around himself. It is not long before his self-satisfaction is rudely shattered when he discovers a letter from his wife Gabrielle (Huppert) waiting for him on his sideboard. The contents of the message will crumble that security and plunge him into newfound feelings of vulnerability abandonment and betrayal. The couple soon finds themselves engaged in a parry-and-thrust of emotions that change mid-sentence and stretch their ability to function and live in the same house. [show more]
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French art drama about the death of love and the end of a relationship. A well to do French couple, Jean and Gabrielle, (Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert) live a well-heeled good life in their Paris home, their every whim catered by servants. On the surface, they are the matrimonial ideal and yet beneath the veneer, they live a desperate, forced co-existence, loveless and chaste. An anniversary celebration is marred by Jean's discovery of a note from Gabrielle saying she has gone to be with a lover. His world in ruin, he awaits her return whereupon the couple go back over the highs and lows of their relationship.
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