Gabrielle

Name: Gabrielle
Genre: Period Piece, Romance, Adventure
Released: 2005
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli, Thierry Hancisse, Chantal Neuwirth

Patrice Chéreau20051h 30mPeriod Piece, Romance, Adventure

Why we chose it

Patrice Chéreau (“Queen Margot”) adapted a Joseph Conrad story into a film where black and white slips smoothly into colour and sepia. Isabelle Huppert plays a wife who has kept her thoughts to herself for years, and once she starts speaking her mind, things get unpleasant.

Synopsis

At the start of the twentieth century, Jean and Gabrielle Hervey open their home to Parisian society every Thursday. One afternoon Jean finds a letter on the hall table telling him his wife has left him for another man. Gabrielle is back within the hour, but neither of them can put it out of their minds.