| La Proie pour l'ombre | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Alexandre Astruc |
| Written by | Alexandre Astruc Claude Brulé Françoise Sagan |
| Produced by | Edmond Ténoudji |
| Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
| Edited by | Ghislaine Desjonquères Denise de Casabianca |
| Music by | Richard Cornu Jean-Sébastien Bach |
Production companies | Les Films Marceau Cocinor |
| Distributed by | Marceau-Cocinor |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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.[1][2] The original screenplay was written by Astruc, Claude Brulé and Françoise Sagan.[3] The film was released on 14 April 1961. It had 620,504 admissions in France.[4]
The movie centers on the story of a woman who runs an art gallery and leaves her husband for another man, whom she eventually also becomes dependent on and leaves; the title is from the French expression lâcher la proie pour l’ombre, which literally means “to let go of the prey for the shadow”,[5] referring to Aesop's fable The Dog and Its Reflection.
Alexandre Astruc described the main character as "a woman who feels in herself a very real need for freedom that is as much moral as social so that she sets about matching a man's work; but at the same time, because she is a woman, she feels the need to be passive, dominated, submissive."[3]
The film was produced by Les Films Marceau in collaboration with Cocinor - Comptoir Cinématographique du Nord. It was shot from 20 July to 31 August 1960.[6]
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