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100If all this potent drama recalls Bergman, the beautifully articulated staging and setting suggest that master of operatic social-sexual drama, Luchino Visconti ("The Leopard").
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100A period chamber drama drawn from a Joseph Conrad short story and of such intensity and passion that it transcends a specificity of time and place to achieve timelessness and universality.
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100Together with his extraordinary performers, Mr. Chéreau breathes life into characters who long ago set a course for death.
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91In Chéreau's hands, Gabrielle has an operatic quality that throws the repressive environment into sharp relief; the film works like a pressure cooker, seething with bottled passions that intermittently burst through with startling cruelty and violence.
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90A haunting and riveting work, unlike anything else you can see at the movies and as such an explicit challenge to the unambitious, anesthetic character of most contemporary cinema. But is it easy, or delightful, or fun? It is not.
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90At once robust and ethereal, this is an existential ghost story, with fresh blood pulsing through its veins.
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88Patrice Chereau's portrait of a marriage en crise is an excoriating look at the deep unhappiness that can fester within the most respectable-seeming of households.
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83Greggory anchors Gabrielle in manly bewilderment and rage, while Huppert claws the title character's way to self-awareness.
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80The film is a wonder and a joy to watch on any number of levels.
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80Huppert and Greggory provide the emotional impact. They respond accordingly, imbuing their mutual suffering with an exacting and moving finesse.
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75The film's impact has a lot to do with Fabio Vacchi's original score, which is both plaintive and coldly modernist, with echoes of Charles Ives.
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Gabrielle inspires mixed feelings; it is dialogue heavy but a treat for the eye.
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70Gabrielle, a quietly insidious tale of domestic warfare that makes the protagonists of Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage" look like pussycats, will exasperate and satisfy in roughly equal measure.
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70Though it won't appeal to everyone, the concoction actually works, thanks to Huppert and Greggory's powerful negative chemistry.
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70So much of this adaptation is engrossing that the script's additions are jarring.
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This highly stylized portrait of a loveless marriage at the beginning of the 20th century merges a claustrophobic theatricality with dazzlingly cinematic wide-screen compositions (the sumptuous cinematography is by Eric Gautier).
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63Chereau keeps us locked inside their suffocatingly unhappy home, making for an intensely theatrical chamber piece.
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63The catch in Gabrielle is that the audience pays as well.
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60This looks and sounds superb. Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Gregory are splendid. But the over-archingly smug sophistication of the enterprise robs it of some much-needed human interest.
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50A chilly, pretentious and talky drama.
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MarcK.2I rented this because of the high critical marks it received. But why? Although sumptuous to look at, slow, uninteresting, and pointless.
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