66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
Tributes, Retrospectives, Homages, Spotlights: Patrice Chereau

France - Italy 2005 90 35mm Color
Paris, 1912. Jean Hervey gets off the train and goes home.Wealthy and successful, he has been the happy husband of Gabrielle for the past ten years.They are the perfect couple, and very popular among the town’s high society which dines at their home every Thursday evening. When he arrives home, Jean discovers his wife isn’t there, while there’s a letter from her waiting for him on his bureau. The perfect marriage collapses like a house of cards. She has left him because she never loved him and now she has found true love. Jean contemplates the love that never existed, but above all the social outcry that is bound to follow.And yet, the door opens, and Gabrielle returns.An endless interrogation begins...