Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell

A dreary city tenement provides backdrop to this tale of exclusion and the magic it takes to become accepted.

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Directed by: François Ozon

Release Date: March 14, 2007

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  • November 17, 2008
    This movie could have so much better, but that's not to say it was bad. If you accept the fact that this was filmed as if it were made in the past and come to see of it more as a dream of her real life more than the actual reality of it (does that make sense?), then it seems a he...( read more)ck of a lot better.
  • October 27, 2009
    Angel was disappointing. The acting was over the top,the lead character was vile and the dialogue was embarassing to listen to but the most awful thing about it was the special effects(any scene that featured transport),they were cringe worthy. Still its oddly watchable.
  • August 3, 2009
    Overplayed, overstated and without interest.
  • August 2, 2009
    This extremely kitsch and flamboyant piece is wonderfully done, while being too classic, but in a beautiful way.
  • June 4, 2009
    GOOD one, though i dont really liked the story of Angel Deverell but thats the treality sometimes we wish everything were a fairytale, but not the case though!
    Good performances from an interesting film
  • March 10, 2009
    Jaw-droppingly awful.
    I think I only watched it the whole (extended version) way through because I couldn't believe what my eyes and ears were telling me (my poor tortured senses).
    Redeeming features you ask: Sam Neill and Charlotte Rampling (and Lucy Russell isn't bad), though...( read more) why they're in this film at all is baffling; oh, and that it (eventually) ends.
    Surely it can't be that bad you say... oh but it is.
    Painfully-bad acting from Romola (to be fair this is the first thing I've seen her in), a title character you couldn't empathise with if you were paid, god-awful dialogue, laughable set design, and a whole of host of other flaws that lead you to wonder whether your DVD skipped on the part with time-machines and body-snatching.
    Amazingly someone felt this film warranted a "Making of..." featurette on the DVD, and, hypnotised by the horror, I was compelled to watch that too. It seems that making it was only marginally more fun than watching it - some of the actors' comments about the script made me laugh, the director's explanation for the "special" effects was vaguely interesting, and poor Sam Neill looked like he'd rather be anywhere else. But I digress...
    All in all I think this movie could qualify for cruel and unusual punishment (I'm not sure that you'd even have to put it on a loop).
    Wow, I feel so mean...
    Maybe the shorter international version was better...
    Who am I kidding... 2 hours shorter wouldn't bump this up to a turkey qualification.
    Only watch if you enjoy creative disasters.
  • January 29, 2009
    the actress was beautiful, but annoyng and naive. i mean, c'mon! she let her husband come home like 5 times and she said just "oh, darling i'm so glad your back. now our lives can get back the way the way they were!".
  • January 28, 2009
    Wrong life. Everybody was pretty much annoying, more or less. Had some moments, some beautiful images, but not much to it.

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