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Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell) (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 11

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

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Release Date: Mar 14, 2007 Wide

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A dreary city tenement provides backdrop to this tale of exclusion and the magic it takes to become accepted.

Unrated, 2 hr. 14 min.

Drama

François Ozon

May 26, 2009

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (11)

The sumptuous visuals make it eminently watchable.

April 8, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment

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.

November 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Talk | Comment

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

March 19, 2009 Full Review Source: HollywoodChicago.com | Comment
HollywoodChicago.com

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.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

François 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.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

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

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Independent

How director Francois Ozon received a Golden Berlin Bear nomination for this shoddy movie, The Sneak will never know.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Sun Online | Comment
Sun Online

A less than heavenly time is guaranteed for anyone who parts with their hard-earned to watch this formulaic period film.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comment
Daily Mirror [UK]

Like Ozon's 8 Women, the costumes are magnificent and Angel's mansion is a shrine to the gods of bad taste. All that's missing is a heroine worthy of Bette Davis in her heyday.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

Choosing to clothe his whole movie in the outré frocks of a bad Technicolor romance, Ozon serves up camp fun, but that's it.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
Daily Telegraph

But this really is a failure - an honourable failure, arguably, but a failure, and a pretty complete one at that.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

The film bristles with contemporary subtext and takes swipes at mediocre artists who believe their own press, and the culture of celebrity.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]

Despite an impressive cast and a well-known director, this misfiring costume drama is a haphazard mess that ends up more unintentionally funny than emotionally engaging.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Ozon's film plays a difficult hand, never settling for all-out high kitsch or straight melodrama. One of the year's most charming failures.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Garai is great, but Ozon is about as adept at directing Brits as Woody Allen. Mind you, the set and costumes are glorious: this is one expensive folly.

August 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Angel is both a sly take on the melodramatic films of another era -- imagine sets and scenery out of The Magnificent Ambersons, for example -- and a spoof of contemporary celebrity, among other things.

June 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comment
Jam! Movies

Angel seems like a collection of misjudgements that required much effort, but with little satisfaction for that effort

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

[Ozon is] too tony now for the vaguely subversive pastiches with which he made his mark.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

The parts are ultimately greater than the whole in the case of Good Luck Chuck, with the overall chemistry between Cook and Alba proving more memorable than any particular joke or sequence. You may mildly enjoy Chuck as you're watching it, but the film wi

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies | Comment
IGN Movies

Sporting an excellent performance by a very promising young actress, this is a film that forces you to pay attention. More than that, it's fulfills the first requirement of any good movie: it's one you'll want to watch again.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies | Comment
IGN Movies
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Audience Reviews for Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell)

it gets two stars purely for sam neill who looks gorgeous as ever!! but this movie isnt for me!! the leading lady cant act for shit and gives the character such arragance and irritates me to the point that makes the movie so unbearable its truly annoyingly terrible!!!

May 5, 2010
FiLmCrAzY
Film Crazy

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"Angel" starts in Edwardian England where young Angel(Romola Garai), daughter of a grocer(Jacqueline Tong), dreams of living in Paradise House, a grand mansion, not that far away physically but eternities away socially. The thing is she wants to be there as mistress, not as a servant like her Aunt Lottie(Janine

November 18, 2008
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Walter M.

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