Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell)

Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell) (2007)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (22 reviews)

  • 38% of users liked it
    (2,415 ratings)

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

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
François Ozon
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Mar 14, 2007 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • David Jenkins, Time Out

    Ozon's film plays a difficult hand, never settling for all-out high kitsch or straight melodrama. One of the year's most charming failures.

  • Mike Edwards, What Culture

    The sumptuous visuals make it eminently watchable.

  • Jason Best, Movie Talk

    Ozon films this saga with a straight face, but the overripe dialogue, dodgy back-projection and unrestrained acting all signal that he is smirking behind his hand.

  • Brian Tallerico, HollywoodChicago.com

    A film that's a total mess, but in kind of a beautiful way.

  • Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

    With a surface like a trashy novel and the undercurrents of a social satire, Ozon's British period drama is a slightly odd mix, feeling both arch and astute at the same time.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Cynthia S


    The background outdoor scenery was a joke. I seriously couldn't get passed that. Oh, and the sappiness of it all, too. I turned this off after an hour...

  • Film C


    it gets two stars purely for sam neill who looks gorgeous as ever!! but this movie isnt for me!! the leading lady cant act for shit and gives the character such arragance and irritates me to the point that makes the movie so unbearable its truly annoyingly terrible!!!

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"Angel" starts in Edwardian England where young Angel(Romola Garai), daughter of a grocer(Jacqueline Tong), dreams of living in Paradise House, a grand mansion, not that far away physically but eternities away socially. The thing is she wants to be… More

  • Lovable M


    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… More

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