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Review title: Fascinating character study and mystery
Product review: Wonderfully acted by Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant, and beautifullyshot.A man re-emerges 10 years after being declared dead in the Napoleonicwars. He wants something, but even HE doesn't seem sure what - hismoney his wife kept, and brought to her new marriage? Revenge on herfor forgetting him? To win her back?Meanwhile, her own lawyer also takes on Chabert's side of the case,trying to broker a compromise, before word leaks out and all involvedare ruined in scandal. (Fabrice Luchini is great as the lawyer who'smotives are always a little mysterious).An interesting, subtle study of what's really of value in life.My only complaint is that some of the Machiavellian machinations are alittle obviously played by both Ardant's character and her greedy,wormy new husband, who values a peerage over marriage, love or family.Somehow that artifice made the film a bit less emotionally powerfulthan it might be. But I'd gladly see it again.
