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Length: 01:43
Posted: 7/23/2009
Gabrielle is Patrice Ch reau's stunning adaptation of the short story "The Return" by Joseph Conrad. Recreating turn-of-the-century France with superb attention to detail, Ch reau casts an unrelenting gaze on the marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle-aged bourgeois couple, played with chilling precision by Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory. As wealthy Parisian Mr. Hervey (Greggory) descends from a train into the teeming bustle of the city. While on his way home, he reflects on the sturdiness and success of his life and the fortress of security he has built around himself. It is not long before his self-satisfaction is rudely shattered when he discovers a letter from his wife, Gabrielle (Huppert), waiting for him on his sideboard. The contents of the message will crumble that security and plunge him into newfound feelings of vulnerability, abandonment and betrayal. The couple soon finds themselves engaged in a parry-and-thrust of emotions that change mid-sentence and stretch the watch
The International Trailer for The Sea Wall (Un barrage contre le Pacifique). A troubled mother's spirit crumbles when her adult children strike out for independence. Feeling abandoned she contemplates taking drastic action. watch
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Length: 01:40
Posted: 10/22/2009
Foreign trailer for the French drama, Villa Amalia, which screened at the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Just as Ann (Isabelle Huppert) discovers that Thomas (Xavier Beauvois), her partner of 15 years, is cheating on her, successful concert pianist and composer Ann (Huppert) bumps by chance into Georges (Jean-Hughes Anglade) whom she hasn t seen since they were children. Reconnecting with this sensitive, accommodating man gives gruff, determined Ann the linchpin she requires to shut down her current life and embark on another... watch
