Colonel Chabert
Directed by Yves Angelo, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier.
Depardieu stars as a soldier presumed killed in battle who comes home years later to find his wife remarried. The set-up echoes Depardieu’s The Return of Martin Guerre, but this directorial debut by Angelo, the stylish cinematographer for Un Coeur en Hiver and The Accompanist, is less concerned with questions of identity than with forms of warfare, in the battlefields and in the bedroom. The movie is adapted from the novel by Balzac.
This article appears in March 24 • 1995 (Cover).