La Baie des Anges (Bay of Angels) (1963)
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83% of critics liked it
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80% of users liked it
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Bay of the Angels (La Baie des anges) stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-aged Parisian gambling addict who leaves her husband and children and heads for the roulette tables of Nice. There she meets young and handsome Claude Mann--a meeting which coincides with Moreau's first winning streak. She… More Bay of the Angels (La Baie des anges) stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-aged Parisian gambling addict who leaves her husband and children and heads for the roulette tables of Nice. There she meets young and handsome Claude Mann--a meeting which coincides with Moreau's first winning streak. She latches onto Mann in the belief that he's a good luck charm, and remains with him even when she starts losing heavily. Mann, emotionally drained, walks out of the relationship. The film ends with Mann entreating Moreau to return with him to the bourgeois existence that she'd escaped in the first scene. Bay of the Angels was directed by Jacques Demy, just before he achieved international fame with his musical films Young Girls of Rochefort and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jacques Demy
- Written By
- Jacques Demy
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 30, 2001 Limited
- On DVD
- Dec 9, 2003
- Studio
- Winstar Cinemas
Critic Reviews
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Playing Jackie ... Moreau is one of the most watchable of screen goddesses.
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
[Moreau's] Jackie Demaistre is a mesmerizing, compulsively watchable performance, one of the few films roles you literally hold your breath watching.
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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
An early chapter of Demy's courtship with the provincial France of his youth, with the most bewitching generation of French actresses, and with movies.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Alternately lighthearted and melancholy, it's a striking look at obsessional behavior.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
So existential, so romantic...
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Cast
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Jeanne Moreau
as Jackie Demaistre
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Claude Mann
as Jean Fournier
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Paul Guers
as Caron
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Henri Nassiet
as Jean's Father
- Nicole Chollet
- Andre Certes
