CORLISS' MOVIES
 
by Richard Corliss E-Mail this
IFC FILMS
GABRIELLE
In Paris 100 years ago, Gabrielle (Isabelle Huppert) and Jean (Pascal Greggory) had a comfortable bourgeois marriage. At least he thought so, until she left him. Now, in a equal and more chagrining shock, she's back, to accept his reproach and emit her smoldering contempt. Based on Joseph Conrad's story The Return, this acidic and affecting little drama exposes what few movies do: that crucial moment in the life of many an affair when words are spoken that can't be taken back — when the chill in the air and the hurt in the heart says: From now on, everything is different, worse, over.

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