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Angel-A (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 83 Fresh: 36  Rotten:47 Average Rating: 5.5/10
 
Consensus: The clunky dialogue and shallow characters fail to capitalize upon Angel-A's stunning, poetic cinematography.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Theatrical Release: May 25, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $39,234

Synopsis: ANGEL-A follows self-described liar and shady businessman Andre (Jamel Debbouze), who is down on his luck and owes Parisian gangsters money. In a desperate and weak state, Andre finds himself on the edge of one of the City of Light's majestic bridges, ready to plunge into the river below.... ANGEL-A follows self-described liar and shady businessman Andre (Jamel Debbouze), who is down on his luck and owes Parisian gangsters money. In a desperate and weak state, Andre finds himself on the edge of one of the City of Light's majestic bridges, ready to plunge into the river below. After one last look around him, he catches sight of a statuesque blonde woman, tears streaking down her gorgeous face, also standing on the ledge just a few feet away. She makes Andre forget about his problems for a moment, and he pleads with her not to jump. She does anyway, and he goes in after her, dragging her to safety. The damsel-in-distress, Angela (Rie Rasmussen), insists on hanging around Andre, doing whatever he tells her, as a way to pay him back for saving her life. Finding it hard to say no to her, and resisting her mesmerizing beauty, he recruits her, somewhat begrudgingly, to help him figure out how to settle his debts. What Andre soon discovers is that meeting Angela was no accident, and that they both need saving, not just from death, but also from themselves. ANGEL-A boasts entertaining performances by Debbouze as the scrappy and quick-tempered Andre and Rasmussen as the optimistic and unassumingly wise and playful Angela. The unlikely pair sparkle onscreen together. ANGEL-A is beautifully filmed, with the black-and-white cinematography capturing all that is engaging and romantic about Paris. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen, Gilbert Melki, Kate Nauta, Serge Riaboukine

Director: Luc Besson
Screenwriter: Luc Besson
Producer: Luc Besson
Composer: Anja Garbarek

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 20, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, French (Parisian), Spanish (Latin American) - Optional

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4/10

Ultimately Angel-A never takes flight, weighted down by an overabundance of metaphysical clichés stolen from other films.

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Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com
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5/10

The film settles into a laid-back groove that is, how shall we say, endlessly boring.

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09/12/07
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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Angela's Oprah-ish effort to change Andre's lying ways becomes a tedious mix of self-help and pop-philosophizing . . . the film's black-and-white look is two shades more complex than its gender politics.

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09/11/07
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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4/5

Besson gives the movie a warmth and charm all its own...

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08/31/07
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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2.5/5

... a visually sumptuous, dramatically inert fable ...

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07/26/07
Robert W. Butler
Arizona Republic
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C+

The film is slickly constructed with a hip soundtrack and art direction, but its empty, a glowing travelogue for a beautiful city and two maudlin characters that are predictable and two dimensional. I love Paris too but would rather see its reality ....

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07/22/07
Moira Sullivan
Movie Magazine International
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2.5/5

A gorgeous-looking film whose crisp, black-and-white photography is unfortunately much more thrilling than its simplistic, cloying story.

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07/19/07
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly
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Familiar situations and trite dialogue give this movie the feel of something freeze-dried and reconstituted.

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07/15/07
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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3/5

Besson's black-and-white angel fantasy is a weak homage to Wings of Desire, if that's what he was shooting for.

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07/13/07
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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2/5

An ultimately dull nonaffair.

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07/13/07
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
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3/5

It’s compelling largely due to its appealing cast.

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07/12/07
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly
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It's too bad it took so long for the film to get here, because it's not only the best part, it's also the very end.

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07/10/07
Beverly Berning
culturevulture.net
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It's a wisp of a film, recommendable for a lark, but not nearly as ambitious or entertaining as you'd expect from Besson.

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07/08/07
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
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2.5/4

Angel-A is a not very persuasive argument on behalf of heavenly intercession, but its co-star, Rie Rasmussen, will make you believe in intelligent design.

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07/07/07
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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2/4

Besson... cribs heavily from Wings of Desire and Heaven Can Wait. If he had thought of it, he would have dressed someone in an Anaheim Angels jersey to elbow your ribs that much further.

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07/06/07
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune
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It's not flashy or bold, and it might not do much for cinephiles who prefer inveterate risk-taking, but it is enjoyable as a largely sentiment-free meditation on friendship and personal growth.

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07/06/07
Stan Hall
Oregonian
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2/4

...the characters here are so unlikable that it's hard to care what happens to them.

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07/06/07
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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3/4

What’s at once refreshing and disorienting about the way Luc Besson -- one of the most interesting international visionaries at work today -- handles the story is his attempt to de-romanticize one of the most idealistic and sublime formulas around.

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06/27/07
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies
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3.5/4

Luc Besson returns to his roots in this delightful, funny and stylish fantasy. Shot in gloriously crisp black and white, it's also a bit of a throwback to the French New Wave for its technique and dazzling location vignettes across Paris.

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06/22/07
Ted Fry
Seattle Times
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The sleek style and sassy attitude gets mired in a vague, soft-headed psychology of self-affirmation and daytime talk-show platitudes as the angel turns every encounter into a lesson in self-esteem and character building.

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06/21/07
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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