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...long-suffering wife of a medieval impostor in The Return of Martin Guerre, is here promoted to the role of a modern-day usurper, named Helene. As in Guerre, she starts out as the victim--this time, eight months pregnant, abandoned on the roadside by a villainous boyfriend. Desperate, Helene invests what money she has in a ticket to "the train to the sun," on the train she meets another pregnant woman. Patricia Meyrand and her husband, who are on their way to meet his parents in Bordeaux Loud, kind, and as aggressive as Helene is retiring. Patricia tries...
...myriad little slips, whether noticed or not, already have Helene at the brink of panic when she receives a spate of anonymous letters, followed by the ex-boyfriend, oozing as much sleaze per celluloid inch as any villain in film history...
...throughout I Married A Shadow, characters like the cruel boyfriend emerge out of the mundane predictability of the "thriller" mechanism, acting irrationally as real people would. However, the collapse midway of the finely sustained tension is too abrupt to make the most of either half of the movie. While the cast manages to avoid histrionics, even amidst the emotional torrents of the end, the story threatens to collapse into a lachrymose mess. Then, presto-as in a paperback romance, all the pieces of the disheveled plot are suddenly tucked into place for an ending as picturesque as it is anti...
...after her dismissal, the woman charged that Vagts raped her while she was in his employ. But three weeks later, she retracted her accusation, claiming instead that her boyfriend had raped her and forced her to file the false complaint...
...woman then claimed that her boyfriend, Gaetan, had forced her file the false complaint as part of scheme to extort money from Vagts...