Gabrielle

Adapting Joseph Conrad’s short story, The Return, director Patrice Chéreau weaves the intense tale of a wealthy couple whose marriage is turned upside down by an episode of infidelity. Relocating the action from Victorian London to Paris on the eve of the Great War, Chéreau brings out Conrad’s painful exploration of suppressed feelings and self-deception, anchored by a typically shattering performance from Isabelle Huppert.