It’s a story of violent emotion quietly articulated in well-appointed rooms; the private scenes of man and wife navigating the emotional wreckage are punctuated by even more painful sequences.

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Although it is possible that French actress Isabelle Huppert makes the occasional false move, she does not make them in front of a camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2006

This is a careful and cinematic adaptation that rings with painful truth.

| Nov 16, 2006

For the most part, [Chereau] lets Huppert and Greggory provide the emotional impact. They respond accordingly, imbuing their mutual suffering with an exacting and moving finesse.

| Sep 28, 2006

Chereau matches Conrad's insistence on psychological accuracy, burrowing through the protective layers of self-delusion that hold so many human relationships together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

Husband and wife, upper-class couple Jean and Gabrielle Hervey, are played, to perfection, by two of France's premier film actors: Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2006

Greggory is up to that journey, revealing the character in his various colors, and Huppert is at her usual best, subtle, emotionally full, focused and honest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2006

Explosive and intense, melancholy yet sometimes mordantly funny, Gabrielle is the sort of picture that takes no prisoners. And offers no definitive answers.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 24, 2006

An emotionally explosive adaptation of Joseph Conrad's short story.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 16, 2006

Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory are superb as a couple of immense wealth and social prestige in the Belle Epoque Paris of 1912 -- but then everything about this film is superb.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 3, 2006

I couldn't stop watching, but came away spiritually drained.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2006

Scenes from a Marriage was twice as devastating with none of the stylistic folderol.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Mr. Chéreau and his collaborators have fashioned a visual masterpiece full of the most pungent and provocative dialogue.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2006

This highly stylized portrait of a loveless marriage at the beginning of the 20th century merges a claustrophobic theatricality with dazzlingly cinematic wide-screen compositions (the sumptuous cinematography is by Eric Gautier).

| Jul 14, 2006

Chereau keeps us locked inside their suffocatingly unhappy home, making for an intensely theatrical chamber piece.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2006

Chilly, pretentious and talky.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2006

[Director Patrice Chereau] has drawn exceptional performances from his two principals.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2006

Patrice Chéreau's startling drama recounts the dissolution of a marriage of a couple (Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert) from the haute bourgeoisie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 13, 2006

As a couple, Jean and Gabrielle are a corseted waking nightmare. As co-stars, [Isabelle] Huppert and [Pascal] Greggory make a dream match.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2006