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Prey for the Shadows (1961)

Prey for the Shadows poster
Original title
La Proie pour l'ombre
Directed by
Alexandre Astruc
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman becomes involved in a love triangle that tests her loyalties and desires. She faces the emotional consequences of her choices in a sophisticated Parisian setting.

melancholictenseslow-burnintimatevisually lushromanticsubtleemotionally charged

What happens

La Proie pour l'ombre is a 1961 French drama film directed by Alexandre Astruc, starring Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin and Christian Marquand. It is known in English as Shadow of Adultery. The original screenplay was written by Astruc, Claude Brulé and Françoise Sagan. The film was released on 14 April 1961. It had 620,504 admissions in France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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