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  • Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Raina Kabaivanska, Thierry Fortineau, Thierry Hancisse
  • Directors: Patrice Chereau
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 23 April 2007
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000MR9F70
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45,179 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Patrice Chereau's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novella THE RETURN is a gripping chamber piece in which a bourgeois man's stable, comfortable life is unexpectedly shattered. The time is turn-of-the-century France. Jean (an utterly brilliant Pascal Greggory) and his wife Gabrielle (Isabelle Huppert) are a well-to-do couple who spend much of their time throwing lavish dinner parties. But one day, Jean discovers a letter left behind by Gabrielle, in which she confesses to Jean that she has been sleeping with another man and is leaving him for good. Devastated beyond belief, Jean is understandably shocked again when Gabrielle returns home just a few hours later. Jean’s pride mixes with jealousy, anger, and bitterness, sending him into a maniacal tirade that seems only to amuse the detached Gabrielle. As the night unfolds, the once happy couple begins to realize just how different they actually are, sparking a final confrontation that will decide their fate once and for all. Masterfully crafted by Chereau (INTIMACY, QUEEN MARGOT) and featuring stunning cinematography by Eric Gautier, GABRIELLE is an excruciatingly intimate account of a crumbling marriage.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Emotion is Revolting", 14 Jul 2007
By L. Davidson (Belfast, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews
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"Gabrielle" is an intense and emotional story based on Joseph Conrad's lesser known novel "The Return". This period French language drama tells the tale of a marital crisis in the household of a respectable ,successful but unemotional French businessman. He returns home from work one day to find a letter from his wife saying that she has left him for another man.However shortly after he reads this letter, she returns back home, apparently having changed her mind. The rest of the film is devoted to discussions and arguments between the flabbergasted and distraught cuckolded husband ,who now believes that his wife is a stranger ,and his saddened, distant and unrepentant spouse. "Gabrielle" is a well acted and impressive film that dissects the nature of relationships and marriage very well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars the dissection of a marriage, 10 Nov 2007
By P. C. Reynell (Bradford UK) - See all my reviews
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a rich and succesful business man has been married for ten years to an intelligent and pretty wife, but beneath the glittering surface sexual interest has waned.
Suddenly she leaves a note to say that she has fallen in love and left him, but she returns a few hours later. He is bewildered, angry and distraught. His probing fails to explain why she has left him and, still more, why she has come back. After an attempted rape and his inability to respond to her sexual invitation, he storms out on her never to return. The story is set in the nineteenth century world of servants and lavish dinner parties, but there are really only two characters in the film. The others are observers rather than participants. Chereau introduces variety by alternating black and white with colour photography and background music with silence, but the rationale is not always obvious.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully acted but get ready to be disappointed, 25 Mar 2009
By Peter M (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
The two leads are extremely good but this is an unsatisfactory film. It feels like a short story in every way, spun out to make just about a film's length (it is only 82 minutes of running time, the rest credits). The attempt to flesh out the original Conrad story by giving some of sort of character and motivation to Isabelle Huppert's wife is not successful - the words she is given by the scriptwriter make her seem more mad than sad - and although she does her level best, it ends by being simply unconvincing. The final three scenes at the end of the film (as it has been (re-)written) beggar belief - what was Chereau thinking? The movie is generally uneven, and divided into three distinct styles - with an extended voiceover introduction externalising the thoughts of the husband; followed by a very talky soiree evening with whizzing subtitles; and then a series of barely sensible, half-finished exchanges between the main leads and also a reluctant maid acting as confidante to the wife. Atmospheric, but empty, rather like the music and the irritating switches from Colour to Black and White. Great acting, but get ready to be disappointed.
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