Angel (2007)
Country: FR/GB/BEL
Technical: col 120m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Fassbender
Synopsis:
The Edwardian era, and a grocer's daughter endowed with little education but a vivid imagination and a signal determination manages to get her first novel published complete with adolescent gaucheries and becomes an overnight sensation. She gets all she desired - fame, fortune, the man and the house she always dreamed of - but taste, moderation and consideration for others elude her to the last.
Review:
An extraordinary exercise in kitsch, including outrageous costumes and plotting (a lesbian private secretary), and blatantly wilful backdrops to the carriage shots; it has to be an Ozon film and lacks only a bunch of suitably arch songs. Quite what he thought he was doing is anyone's guess. What comes across is a sometimes hilarious mix of Anne of Green Gables cheek and the kind of war-wounded melodrama one gets from the poorest Lady Chatterley's Lover adaptations. It's easy on the eye but empty on the soul.
Country: FR/GB/BEL
Technical: col 120m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Fassbender
Synopsis:
The Edwardian era, and a grocer's daughter endowed with little education but a vivid imagination and a signal determination manages to get her first novel published complete with adolescent gaucheries and becomes an overnight sensation. She gets all she desired - fame, fortune, the man and the house she always dreamed of - but taste, moderation and consideration for others elude her to the last.
Review:
An extraordinary exercise in kitsch, including outrageous costumes and plotting (a lesbian private secretary), and blatantly wilful backdrops to the carriage shots; it has to be an Ozon film and lacks only a bunch of suitably arch songs. Quite what he thought he was doing is anyone's guess. What comes across is a sometimes hilarious mix of Anne of Green Gables cheek and the kind of war-wounded melodrama one gets from the poorest Lady Chatterley's Lover adaptations. It's easy on the eye but empty on the soul.
Country: FR/GB/BEL
Technical: col 120m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Fassbender
Synopsis:
The Edwardian era, and a grocer's daughter endowed with little education but a vivid imagination and a signal determination manages to get her first novel published complete with adolescent gaucheries and becomes an overnight sensation. She gets all she desired - fame, fortune, the man and the house she always dreamed of - but taste, moderation and consideration for others elude her to the last.
Review:
An extraordinary exercise in kitsch, including outrageous costumes and plotting (a lesbian private secretary), and blatantly wilful backdrops to the carriage shots; it has to be an Ozon film and lacks only a bunch of suitably arch songs. Quite what he thought he was doing is anyone's guess. What comes across is a sometimes hilarious mix of Anne of Green Gables cheek and the kind of war-wounded melodrama one gets from the poorest Lady Chatterley's Lover adaptations. It's easy on the eye but empty on the soul.