Gabrielle Trailer by Patrice Chéreau To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. real (320x180) [2 MB] Paris, early 1900s. Provoking a cataclysmic crisis in her conventional, bourgeois marriage, Mme Hervey and her husband each take on the supposed virtues of the opposite sex. Based upon a novel by Joseph Conrad .