Angel-A
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Angel-A |
| Original title | Angel-A |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luc Besson |
| script | Luc Besson |
| production | Luc Besson |
| music | Anja Garbarek |
| camera | Thierry Arbogast |
| cut | Frédéric Thoraval |
| occupation | |
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Angel-A is a film drama by French director Luc Besson from the year 2005 . It was shot entirely in black and white ; the only color thing in the entire film is the red hyphen in the title.
action
When the indebted crook André tries to take his own life on the Parisian Pont Alexandre III on a Sunday morning , a blonde, attractive woman appears out of nowhere who pretends to also want to kill herself and throws herself into the Seine .
He jumps after her and saves her, whereupon she offers herself to thank the comparatively much smaller André and even kisses him after he has demanded it in disbelief. From then on he is accompanied by the tall beauty who introduces herself as Angela and initially helps André unconventionally to repay debts to the loan shark and mafioso Franck and the bar owner Pedro.
For André and the audience, it initially seems as if Angela is prostituting herself . However, she turns out to be an angel and can only prove this to the incredulous André with little tricks, such as levitating an ashtray and renewing a cigarette. She explains that she was put on him and that she chose what she calls the "slut" costume. She was sent to help the 28 year old take control of his life. André is plagued by strong self-doubt and feels stupid and ugly.
After all, she can get him to love his body and himself and to recognize his good things, like his good heart and - according to Angela - generally female traits that are paired with negative male traits such as the fear of love. It also becomes obvious that Angela has problems too; she doesn't know who she once was before she became an angel. Since she now sees her task of helping André as fulfilled, she wants to return to heaven. André wants her to stay with him because he has fallen in love with her; she uncertainly refuses. Eventually she almost agrees, since she has developed feelings for him too. They kiss. Then their wings activate themselves, the sky calls them back and forces them to fly away. André uses the last of his strength to prevent her from leaving, whereupon they both rush into the Seine again. You survive. From this point on Angela is a normal person and is allowed to stay with André.
Reviews
Brian Tallerico says in UGO that the "visual virtuosity" that is in Angel-A , the "bumps in the story and the inconsistencies of the characters" far outweighs.
The lexicon of international films said: “On the basis of a rather thin, nonetheless appealing plot, Luc Besson juggles technically virtuoso with narrative patterns, image codes and clichés and develops a bizarre and beautiful drama that is as lyrical as it is amusing, melancholy in atmospheric black and white images like a bizarre variation on the (self-) discovery of an extraordinary pair of lovers. "
According to Cinema, "the encounter between the unequal couple [...] is too chatty, too superficial, too intentionally naive [...]." The conclusion was: “The black and white views of Paris are beautiful to dream of. The naive romance of a unlucky fellow with an angel, on the other hand, makes you snore. "
Web links
- Angel-A in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Angel-A atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Angel-A . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 600 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Angel-A . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Angel-A at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Angel-A. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de