The Shade
A Feature film of
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Production year1999
French release01/03/2000
Runtime1 h 23 min
Synopsis
Alone in his apartment, Simon watches over his wife's body. Anna has just committed suicide. Beside himself, he remembers when they first met a year ago. Simon, fortyish, is a pawnbroker in New York's Spanish Harlem. He leads a strict, solitary life, obsessed with order and money. One day, Anna comes into his store to sell a few jewels. She's thirty-years-old, beautiful, enigmatic. She seems to have come from nowhere, and doesn't really know where to go. Simon is intrigued. He's touched by her beauty, her sadness. Anna returns to see him several times. One evening, he invites her to dinner, and abruptly asks her to marry him…
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriter : Raphaël Nadjari
- Director of Photography : Laurent Brunet
- Music Composer : John Surman
- Assistant Director : Fred Bellaïche
- Editor : Tom Donahue
- Sound Recordist : Griffin Richardson
- Costume designer : Sarah Holden
- Author of original work : Fiodor Dostoïevski
- Press Attaché (film) : Michel Burstein
- Production Designers : Sean Foley, Caroline Hélain
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, United States
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, United States)
