Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 3
Showcasing excellent lead performances, The Dreamlife of Angels is an intelligent, absorbing character study of two women.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 0
Showcasing excellent lead performances, The Dreamlife of Angels is an intelligent, absorbing character study of two women.
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Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier both won "Best Actress" honors at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in this naturalistic drama about two women alienated from mainstream society. After a trio of short films, this is the feature directorial debut of 41-year-old French filmmaker Erick Zonca. With opening scenes reminiscent of Agnes Varda's Vagabond (1985), optimistic hobo Isa (Bouchez), with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern
Sep 9, 1998 Wide
Aug 24, 1999
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (53) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (3) | DVD (4)
Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing.
It's a compelling work about loneliness and two ways of dealing with it.
Completely absorbing, almost rudely poignant.
As raw and immediate as it is heartfelt.
Heralds a humanist cinema that neither shortchanges our minds nor cheapens what's in our hearts.
The movie understands what few American movies admit: Not everyone can afford the luxury of following their hearts.
Two unforgettable characters are revealed, and the truth resonates powerfully through their stories.
Allows the viewer to not only see, but experience the pain of these characters.
Zonca's lyrical cinema verite style magnifies the small tensions and flare-ups that can blow apart a friendship in the blink of an eye.
The dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rêvée des anges) is a story of capitalistic and sexual exploitation, rage, rebellion, and the search for meaning in everyday things.
Might set the record for most cigarettes smoked in a movie ever. Very real-feeling, moving, great perfomances. OK, this is glib: kind of like if les freres Dardenne did a good chick flick.
July 13, 2007Super Reviewer
Excellent performances from the two lead actresses. Incredibly intense and real story, with a particularly emotional ending.
August 29, 2008
Super Reviewer
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