The Village Voice, July 12th, 2006
The Break-Up
Vivid performances animate a dead marriage in Chereau's explosive chamber piece
Gabrielle
Directed by Patrice Chéreau
IFC, opens July 14
Joseph Conrad's short story '"The Return" (written in 1897 but not published until 1923) is a domestic-bourgeois detonation that finds the author far from his exotic stomping grounds. But for Conrad, an outsider in London, there were surely few settings more alien than English high society; accordingly, this relatively unsung, somewhat Jamesian piece unfolds with the simultaneous vividness and detachment of an out-of-body hallucination. Pat...
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