In Paris, the twenty-eight year-old small-time crook André Moussah (James Debbouze) owes a large amount to powerful bosses of the Parisian underworld and he needs to pay until the next day. His legitimate business with olive oil from Argentina has never succeeded to pay the loans. He seeks protection in the American Consulate and in the French police and finally in despair, he decides to commit suicide jumping from a bridge in the Seine. In the same moment, he sees a beautiful tall woman ready to jump in the water from the same bridge. He jumps in the water and saves her life, and she introduces herself as Angela (Rie Rasmussen). They spend the rest of the day and the night together and she provides enough money to him to pay his creditors. Then she confesses that she is a fallen angel assigned to help him to retrieve his self-esteem since he is a good person inside. Sooner André falls in love for her, but Angel-A will retrieve her wings in the end of her journey.
"Angel-A" is a weird fairytale with a magnificent cinematography in black-and-white in the landscapes of the wonderful Paris. The very beautiful unknown Danish actress Rie Rasmussen performs the role of a fallen angel assigned to help a man that does not know that he is good like Henry Travers does in "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart's character George Bailey. But on the contrary of Frank Capra's masterpiece, the man to be saved, André Moussah, is a short low-life non-likable worthless character and has nothing to do with the tall blonde Angel-A; therefore their romance is absolutely ridiculous, implausible and never works. Further, the way Angel-A resolves their money problem is silly and dull. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Angel-A"
"Angel-A" is a weird fairytale with a magnificent cinematography in black-and-white in the landscapes of the wonderful Paris. The very beautiful unknown Danish actress Rie Rasmussen performs the role of a fallen angel assigned to help a man that does not know that he is good like Henry Travers does in "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart's character George Bailey. But on the contrary of Frank Capra's masterpiece, the man to be saved, André Moussah, is a short low-life non-likable worthless character and has nothing to do with the tall blonde Angel-A; therefore their romance is absolutely ridiculous, implausible and never works. Further, the way Angel-A resolves their money problem is silly and dull. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Angel-A"