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Featured in the Director’s Fortnight section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, In the Shadow of Women is the latest from legendary bête noire of the French film industry, Philippe Garrel (Regular Lovers, Jealousy). In the Shadow of Women features a thirty-something Parisian couple, Pierre (Stanislas Merhar) and Manon (Clotilde Courau), as they struggle to earn a living as documentary filmmakers. While doing archival research for his film on a French Resistance fighter, Pierre meets a young intern Elisabeth (Léna Paugam), with whom he immediately enters a sexual relationship. The weak and ineffectual Pierre, however, soon finds himself as constrained by his new affair as he had felt in his relationship with Manon. Shot in luminous black & white, In the Shadow of Women is the latest of Garrel’s highly accomplished films to revive not only the look but also the youthful romantic spirit of the French New Wave.
Director Philippe Garrel 2015 France/Switzerland 73 minutes Unrated DCP