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  • 2006
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2006
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Patrice Chéreau directs this stunning adaptation of the short story "The Return" by Joseph Conrad. Recreating turn-of-the-century France with superb attention to detail, Chéreau casts an unrelenting gaze on the marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle-aged bourgeois couple, played with chilling precision by Isabelle Huppert and Pascal ...

Directed By: Patrice Chéreau

Written By: Anne-Louise Trividic, Joseph Conrad, Patrice Chéreau

  • 2006
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2006
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 30 m

Gabrielle

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
79
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
4.6
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Summary Patrice Chéreau directs this stunning adaptation of the short story "The Return" by Joseph Conrad. Recreating turn-of-the-century France with superb attention to detail, Chéreau casts an unrelenting gaze on the marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle-aged bourgeois couple, played with chilling precision by Isabelle Huppert and Pascal ...

Directed By: Patrice Chéreau

Written By: Anne-Louise Trividic, Joseph Conrad, Patrice Chéreau

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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100
If all this potent drama recalls Bergman, the beautifully articulated staging and setting suggest that master of operatic social-sexual drama, Luchino Visconti ("The Leopard").
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
91
In 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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
88
Patrice 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.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
The 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.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
70
Though it won't appeal to everyone, the concoction actually works, thanks to Huppert and Greggory's powerful negative chemistry.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
63
The catch in Gabrielle is that the audience pays as well.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
A chilly, pretentious and talky drama.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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4.6
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29% Mixed
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43% Negative
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Production Company Azor Films, Arte France Cinéma, StudioCanal, Love Streams Productions, Albachiara, Network Movie Film-und Fernsehproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Canal+, arte France Développement, Eurimages, La Région Île-de-France, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date Jul 14, 2006
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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