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Shadow Play (1996)
Director: Martine Dugowson
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Romane Bohringer, Marie Trintignant, Elsa Zylberstein
5.8
73%Runtime111 min
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Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also jobs for the movies. This is where Lise meets producer Alphonse, who is nearly 20 years older than she. Because he is unhappy with his girlfriend a secret relationship evolves. Ada has problems as well, but she's not the only one. There are also the young Emma and Nina, as well as Yves and Guido - enough people to get into complicated relationship entanglements.
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Fans of character-driven dramedies will appreciate the standout performance of Helena Bonham Carter in this 1996 film directed by Martine Dugowson. The complex, layered relationships between the costume designer characters provide an intimate, insightful look at the struggles and entanglements of creative professionals.
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Shadow Play is a 1986 American supernatural horror film directed by Susan Shadburne and starring Dee Wallace and Cloris Leachman. It follows a playwright who lost her fiancé seven years prior. She begins having reoccurring dreams about his death and suffers from writer's block. The film centers around the lighthouse where the tragedy took place. Throughout the film there are many subtle lighthouse effects and references. The Shadow Play within the story itself is literally a timing of each beat after another on the spinning of the beacon light of the lantern room.
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