Gabriel's Rapture: Part I

Gabriel's Rapture: Part I (2021) is the fourth chapter of the Gabriel's Inferno film series — watch it online on iFILM after the first three installments. Director Tosca Musk adapts Sylvain Reynard's bestselling novel: Professor Gabriel Emerson and his former student Julia Mitchell have just come back from an idyllic Italian holiday, and real life hits hard the moment they land.

Giulio Berruti and Melanie Zanetti carry the film on the strength of their chemistry. Back on campus, Gabriel's academic career comes under threat from university politics and a rival with an axe to grind, while a jealous ex from Julia's past resurfaces to complicate things further. The happiness that felt so easy under Florentine skies now has to survive the mundane pressures both characters have been avoiding.

The film is for the audience that followed Gabriel and Julia from the start — it rewards patience and doesn't try to reinvent the formula. The two leads do enough subtle work to keep it from feeling like a placeholder between bigger moments. Stream Gabriel's Rapture: Part I (2021) online on iFILM.