Event

In the Shadow of Women

Feb 12 - Feb 14

(Philippe Garrel, France, 2014, 73 min)

Seattle Premiere!

Friday, Feb 12 at 07:45PM
Saturday, Feb 13 at 04:15PM
Saturday, Feb 13 at 07:45PM
Sunday, Feb 14 at 04:15PM
Sunday, Feb 14 at 07:45PM

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 infidelitynot 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.