Angel
- Director: François Ozon
- Writer: Elizabeth Taylor; François Ozon
- Producer: Olivier Delbosc; Christopher Granier-Deferre
CGiii Comment
Monsieur Ozon's first foray with the English language...appreciated, but - really - he needn't have bothered.
A character that grates on the very soul of existence - a 2-hour insufferable torture.
Whoever was in charge of the wardrobe should be congratulated for their sublime sense of humour - Angel goes from a flighty, meringue-dressed airhead to a dowdy Shakespearean witch who would not seem out of place in any of the Harry Potter films.
At times, you would be forgiven for thinking that you were watching an old (forgotten) Hollywood movie - replete with atrocious green-screen work...melodramatic and madly implausible.
A gruesome film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Angel Deverell comes of age in Edwardian Cheshire knowing she will be a great writer. Rising above her class (her widowed mother has a grocery shop), Angel finds a publisher and a wide audience for her frothy romances. With royalties, she buys an estate, then she's smitten by Esme, a rake from local aristocracy and an artist of dark temperament. She hires Esme's sister Nora, who dotes on her, as a personal assistant, and pursues Esme. Angel is grandly self-centered, coloring her world as if it were one of her novels. When the Great War breaks out and reality begins to trump her will, can Angel hold on to her man and her public?
Cast & Characters
Romola Garai as Angel Deverell;
Sam Neill as Theo;
Lucy Russell as Nora Howe-Nevinson;
Michael Fassbender as Esme;
Charlotte Rampling as Hermione;
Jacqueline Tong as Mother Deverell;
Janine Duvitski as Aunt Lottie;
Christopher Benjamin as Lord Norley;
Tom Georgeson as Marvell;
Simon Woods as Clive Fennelly