Gabrielle
8pm, Thursday 3 May, Salisbury Arts Centre
Patrice Cheraeu. 2006. 90 mins. Cert 15.
Patrice Chéreau’s (La Rein Margot) adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s short story The Return recreates turn of the century Paris with superb attention to detail. Chereau casts an unrelenting gaze on the marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle-aged bourgeois couple, played with chilling precision by Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Gregory. Featuring sumptuous period photography punctuated with bold stylistic touches and a pounding classical score, this dark and commanding study of human nature is a haunting and emotive piece of cinema.
DEVASTATING... A DELICIOUS, CLAUSTROPHOBIC INTENSITY. HUPPERT, AS EVER, IS TERRIFIC - TIME OUT
A FILM OF ECCENTRIC BEAUTY AND WILD FEELING. BOTH ACTORS KEEP YOU RIVETED - NEW YORK TIMES
Tickets £5 from Salisbury Arts Centre 01722 321744
A post show discussion will follow this evening's screening.
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