“Gabriel’s Redemption: Part One” (* out of four) was a miserable adaptation of Sylvain Renard’s popular series about the continuing personal and sexual adventures of the title character Gabriel (Giulio Berruti) who leaves his prestigious position at the University At Toronto and meets a new girl (Melanie Zannetti) who is a teacher at Oxford but their academic and philosophical ideals clash with one another. Molasses-moving and tedious, just like all the other Renard film adaptations; this makes the “50 Shades” movies look like “The Matrix” by comparison. Film basically boils down to 2 who have different presentations to students and how that manifests their sexual obsession. If that sounds like little to get excited about, you wouldn’t be wrong.

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