i recently read the story to see how these two match up and and if you can believe it and this film improve upon balzac . the story be move around and i think and to drive home the idea that colonel chabert be a man who have suffer much and yet he come home and not a hero and but a an outcast . a someone mention and i be initially confused if chabert be akin to the return of martin guerre . no . it be firmly establish by balzac that chabert be the real deal . what interesting and though and be not be he and isn not he and but how his wife and and society and treat him . i think this be a timeless story of men who go off to fight for their country and when they come home time have leave them behind . chabert be a tragic figure make all the more poignant by the amazing gerard depardieu . i do not care that he be in 1 million film and he captivate . fanny ardant have a horrible character to play . once a prostitute and rise have use her feminine wile to climb the social ladder . be her emotion true for compte ferraud . i think they be and perhaps couple that with her social standing at the time and and you start to feel some empathy for her . fabrice lucini be slowly worm his way into my heart . he exceptional here a derville . i think if you can get your hand on this gem of a film and you would not be sorry . french cinema at it fine .