I Married a Shadow

1983 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 617 617

fake identity

Plot summary

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

Director

Robin Davis Photo
Robin Davis

Top cast

Richard Bohringer Photo
Richard Bohringer as Frank Georges
Véronique Genest Photo
Véronique Genest as Patricia Meyrand
Francis Huster Photo
Francis Huster as Pierre
Nathalie Baye Photo
Nathalie Baye as Patricia Meyrand / Hélène Georges
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
999.89 MB
1200*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 1
1.81 GB
1800*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kinsayder

A well crafted thriller that also happens to be a charming love story.

Nathalie Baye plays the fiancée of a bully (Richard Bohringer in one of his trademark creepy bad guy roles). She is suddenly given the opportunity to start a new life by assuming the identity of a dead woman, and she takes it. But of course it's not going to be that easy...The choice of Nathalie Baye as the lead is important for the tone of the film. With another actress, say Isabelle Adjani, we would be in completely different territory, questioning the heroine's motives as she settles into her new and immensely wealthy "family". But Baye has such a guileless sweetness, you find yourself rooting for her even when she's sticking a knife in someone's chest. Francis Huster is well cast, too, as the romantic lead whose ambiguous behaviour (has he guessed her secret?) fuels much of the suspense during the middle section of the film.Despite the corny plot and the melodramatic elements, the film has a very satisfying pace and mood (enhanced by the lovely soundtrack and the glorious Bordeaux setting). It may be a disappointment to fans of the much darker novel but, as Robin Davis explains in his DVD commentary, it was never his intention to make a faithful adaptation or a typical noir thriller. He changed the story because he cared too much about the characters to abandon them without hope.
Reviewed by dbdumonteil 3 / 10

Irish nadir.

This one may be the worst of all Irish's (Cornell Woolrich's) adaptation for the screen.Not because they have transposed the action from California to the vineyards of Bordeaux,but because they totally betrayed the novel.Robin Davis ,a thoroughly faceless director, could not render Irish's doomed atmosphere to the slightest extent.The dialogue is mean,poor,repetitive,Richard Boringer,the villain,is reduced to repeat almost the same lines three times.The conclusion becomes an happy end,forgetting the terrible final lines of the novel,something like:"We've lost.That's all I know.We've lost.And now the game is over." Irish's tragic tale of fatality is turned into a soap opera .Natalie Baye could have been the character,had she found the adequate team. The only comedian on the screen who generates some emotion is veteran Madeleine Robinson.This was a blockbuster in France,but ,alas, almost nobody read the book.Do it,and avoid this bland movie.NB :A new adaptation ,"Mrs Winterbourne" (1996) ,is worse.The best,by far ,is Mitchell Leisen's "No man of her own" starring Barbara Stanwyck.
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