From Joseph Conrad’s short story, The Return, director Patrice Chéreau tells the story of a wealthy couple’s declining marriage after the discovery of a letter belonging to Gabrielle (Isabelle Huppert).

Isabelle Huppert plays one end of a crumbling marriage with a stirring sense of anguish in Patrice Chéreau’s deeply-felt period drama. Based on Joseph Conrad’s haunting domestic drama The Return, the film exquisitely explores the dark insecurities at the heart of human relationships.