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The new film by the great Philippe Garrel (previously seen at the NYFF with Regular Lovers in 2005 and Jealousy in 2013) is a close look at infidelity—not merely the fact of it, but the particular, divergent ways in which it’s experienced and understood by men and women. Stanislas Merhar and Clotilde Courau are Pierre and Manon, a married couple working in fragile harmony on Pierre’s documentary film projects, the latest of which is a portrait of a resistance fighter (Jean Pommier). When Pierre takes a lover (Lena Paugam), he feels entitled to do so, and he treats both wife and mistress with disengagement bordering on disdain when Manon catches Pierre in the act, her immediate response is to find common ground with her husband. Garrel is an artist of intimacies and emotional ecologies, and with In the Shadow of Women he has added narrative intricacy and intrigue to his toolbox. The result is an exquisite jewel of a film.
Original Release
05/27/2015
US Release
01/15/2016
Cast
Name | Character |
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Clotilde Courau | Manon |
Stanislas Merhar | Pierre |
Lena Paugam | Elisabeth |
Vimala Pons | Lisa |
Antoinette Moya | La mère de Manon |
Jean Pommier | Henri, le vieux résistant / Henri |
Thérèse Quentin | La femme d'Henri |
Mounir Margoum | L'amant de Manon |
Claude Desmecht | Le propriétaire |
Christian Cousquer | L'homme du marché |
Directors
Writers
Philippe Garrel, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Arlette Langmann
Cast
Name | Character |
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Clotilde Courau | Manon |
Stanislas Merhar | Pierre |
Lena Paugam | Elisabeth |
Vimala Pons | Lisa |
Antoinette Moya | La mère de Manon |
Jean Pommier | Henri, le vieux résistant / Henri |
Thérèse Quentin | La femme d'Henri |
Mounir Margoum | L'amant de Manon |
Claude Desmecht | Le propriétaire |
Christian Cousquer | L'homme du marché |
Michel Charrel | L'homme de l'enterrement |
Louis Garrel | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Suzanne Szerman | |
Jean Masini | |
Robert Rotsztein | |
Angélique Zaïni | Voix femme dans la cour (voice) / Voix femme dans la cour |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Saïd Ben Saïd | Producer |
Joelle Bertossa | Producer |
Sarah Borch-Jacobsen | Producer |
Rémi Burah | Producer |
Kevin Chneiweiss | Producer |
Benjamin Magnin | Producer |
Michel Merkt | Producer |
Sophie Sallin | Producer |
Olivier Père | Producer |