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The turn of the century, the 19th to the 20th, that is, involved change of all kinds.

Today's film shows the change on and in relationships.

Gabrielle (2005)

Isabelle Huppert, stuck in a loveless marriage, bolts and runs off to her lover and is back home in the same afternoon.

What is up with that?

That is the point of the film. Obligation versus freedom. Love versus hostage taking. Classy behavior or do what you feel you want? All very bourgeois questions. Not many answered.

Huppert is quite good in this film but depends on her costar Pascal Greggory for the necessary counterweight. The result is a tour de force of manners versus feeling.

The sets are sumptuous. The supporting acting superb. I would, actually, be quite happy to see it again. That would make it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films