Un ange
2001 Crime / Thriller / Drama
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Summary
Leaving prison, Léa is determined to make a fresh start, away
from the gangster friends who got her convicted. Unfortunately,
Fate has other ideas. When her brother is shot dead by police,
she is driven to take her revenge...
Review
Two years was how long it took the producer of this film to find a distributor
after it had been made... and it’s not hard to see why. For his
second feature, director Miguel Courtois was keen to bring a new slant
to a popular genre in French cinema, the policier thriller.
Unfortunately, he manages to get it almost completely wrong. The
plot is unbelievably hackneyed, to the extent that it is very nearly a
tedious montage of tired clichés which would have looked dated even in the
1970s. Courtois’s attempts at originality are pretty
well limited to the film’s visual style, which wouldn't have been so bad
if he had been a little more restrained. What we get is an almost
continuous barrage of overly athletic camera movement (every kind of pan and zoom you can imagine) which, for
the most part, serves merely to distract the spectactor. On
the plus side, the film has a strong cast, but since the
characterisation is so weak and the plot so lacking in credibility,
this ends up feeling like an expensive icing on a pretty indigestible
gâteau.
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