Angel

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Angel

2007

1h 59m

Drama

Romance

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22 Reviews

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2,500+ Ratings

Penniless writer Angel Deverell (Romola Garai) meets wealthy publisher Théo (Sam Neill), who becomes an avid champion of her work. The resulting series of explicit romance novels makes Deverell a celebrity -- and catapults her into the upper echelons of English society. A self-made woman, Deverell marries struggling modernist painter Esmé (Michael Fassbender) and becomes his sole patron. But, as World War I fractures Europe, Deverell finds her marriage and career thrust into turmoil.

Critics Consensus

An odd mix of period melo-drama and social satire, with lavish sets and costumes, but Angel never takes flight.

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Brian Tallerico

HollywoodChicago.com

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

Mar 19, 2009

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Franois Ozon is a Gallic Michael Winterbottom, if not in style then at least in his determination to do something different every time. As with Winterbottom, sometimes the result is great and sometimes not.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 29, 2008

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

The French director Franois Ozon has taken Elizabeth Taylor's beadily satiric novel and transformed it into a droll and somewhat disturbing fantasia on the creative temperament.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 29, 2008

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Mike Edwards

What Culture

The sumptuous visuals make it eminently watchable.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 8, 2011

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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.

Nov 19, 2010

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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.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 29, 2008

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Vander A

Utter balderdash. Who knew they made movies this bad unless this was supposed to be a parody. Painfully bad.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/29/23

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Audience Member

This movie was so bad I don't even know where to start so I'll leave it at that.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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I watched the film because Michael Fassbender is one of my favourite actors and he doesn't fail. However, the rest of the film is terrible. The acting isn't good... in fact it's quite hard to watch. There is too much use of green screen, which is very obvious, (I know the films 10 years old now). The whole pace and speed of the film is very slow, I failed to become emotionally connected to the film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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badly directed ,Michael fassbender was not able to be the great actor he is.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Well, it is pretty to look at --- and a young Michael Fassbender only adds to the scenery.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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The first half of the movie is the rise of Angel. The feeling is then surrealist, like living in the insanity ourselves. It is too outlandish, too fabulous to be real. I kept wishing for some explosion to break the spell. It comes with the announcement of the first world war, a relief! We don't see much of that since the film keeps with Angel's view. The film remains lightly made and never get gritty. This film is actually very extraordinary in making me feel the delusion, the alternate reality, something I never felt watching more out-of-this-world films like science fiction. The fact that it ressemble reality closely may account for this effect. It's a distrubing feeling but even then, I still couldn't miss how they would end the story. Afterward, I wanted to know if such a person existed. In some way, maybe we can imagine that some old aunt could be deluded in a romantic way like that. There are lots of popular romantic books, isn't there?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Romola Garai

Angel Deverell

Sam Neill

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Lucy Russell

Nora Howe-Nevinson

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Synopsis

Penniless writer Angel Deverell (Romola Garai) meets wealthy publisher Théo (Sam Neill), who becomes an avid champion of her work. The resulting series of explicit romance novels makes Deverell a celebrity -- and catapults her into the upper echelons of English society. A self-made woman, Deverell marries struggling modernist painter Esmé (Michael Fassbender) and becomes his sole patron. But, as World War I fractures Europe, Deverell finds her marriage and career thrust into turmoil.

Director: François Ozon
Producer: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
Screenwriter: François Ozon, Martin Crimp
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 28, 2017
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital