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Gabrielle

 

France 2005, 86 minutes
Dir. Patrice Chereau
In French with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Romance

Topics: Period - 1900s.

 

Aroview: Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple.

Gorgeously framed and theatrically talky in the grand tradition of Gallic two-handers, this oft-told drama of cracked veneers is enriched by Isabelle Huppert's exhaustively emotive turn as a long-suffering socialite wife, almost matched by Greggory as her once-proud husband all at sea in the agony of emotions laid bare. Disregard the odd self-indulgent stylistic diversion into Brechtian territory, as patient viewing will reap rewards.

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  • aspect ratio: 2.35:1
 

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