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Angel-A
Overview
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Director and cast
- Luc Besson Director
- Jamel Debbouze as André
- Rie Rasmussen as Angel-A
- Gilbert Melki as Franck
- Serge Riaboukine as Pedro
- Akim Chir as Le chef des malfrats
- Laurent Jumeaucourt as Le dragueur
- Solange Milhaud as La femme de Saint-Lazare
- Loïc Pora as Le malfrat
- Venus Boone as La mère d'Angela
- Eric Balliet as Garde du corps Franck
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Familiar situations and trite dialogue give this movie the feel of something freeze-dried and reconstituted.
Besson's black-and-white angel fantasy is a weak homage to Wings of Desire, if that's what he was shooting for.
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.
You desperately want the story, and the characters, to make some kind of emotional sense. This, however, does not happen.
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