Angel-a (2005)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/2.35:1 91m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Rie Rasmussen, Jamel Debbouze, Gilbert Melki
Synopsis:
A deadbeat in debt to various elements of the Parisian criminal underworld is cornered by circumstances and about to contemplate suicide from a bridge on the Seine when he is saved by a leggy blonde claiming to be his guardian angel.
Review:
Crass riff on It's a Wonderful Life with an undeserving hero and a sexually voracious angel. Only the director of Nikita and The Big Blue could make a film in which a naïve femme-enfant teaches a loser the power of truth while serially decking any other male character who gets in the way. The black-and-white photography is pretentious but attractive, the faux-Jeunet dialogue palls after the first minute, and the plot founders on one embarrassing cliché after another when the idiotic scenario has no other way out.
Country: FR
Technical: bw/2.35:1 91m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Rie Rasmussen, Jamel Debbouze, Gilbert Melki
Synopsis:
A deadbeat in debt to various elements of the Parisian criminal underworld is cornered by circumstances and about to contemplate suicide from a bridge on the Seine when he is saved by a leggy blonde claiming to be his guardian angel.
Review:
Crass riff on It's a Wonderful Life with an undeserving hero and a sexually voracious angel. Only the director of Nikita and The Big Blue could make a film in which a naïve femme-enfant teaches a loser the power of truth while serially decking any other male character who gets in the way. The black-and-white photography is pretentious but attractive, the faux-Jeunet dialogue palls after the first minute, and the plot founders on one embarrassing cliché after another when the idiotic scenario has no other way out.
Country: FR
Technical: bw/2.35:1 91m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Rie Rasmussen, Jamel Debbouze, Gilbert Melki
Synopsis:
A deadbeat in debt to various elements of the Parisian criminal underworld is cornered by circumstances and about to contemplate suicide from a bridge on the Seine when he is saved by a leggy blonde claiming to be his guardian angel.
Review:
Crass riff on It's a Wonderful Life with an undeserving hero and a sexually voracious angel. Only the director of Nikita and The Big Blue could make a film in which a naïve femme-enfant teaches a loser the power of truth while serially decking any other male character who gets in the way. The black-and-white photography is pretentious but attractive, the faux-Jeunet dialogue palls after the first minute, and the plot founders on one embarrassing cliché after another when the idiotic scenario has no other way out.