Angel (2007/I)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.1/10   

Réalisateur:

François Ozon

Writers:

Elizabeth Taylor (novel)
François Ozon (written by)
(suite)

Release Date:

14 mars 2007 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drame | Romance

Accroche:

A dreary city tenement provides backdrop to this tale of exclusion and the magic it takes to become accepted.

Plot:

The rise and fall of a young eccentric British writer, in the early 20th century.

Plot Keywords:

Rags To Riches | 1900s | Publisher | Author | Mother Daughter Relationship

Awards:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

A sumptuous, deliberately melodramatic and yet genuinely heartfelt pastiche.

Ensemble

Romola Garai	...	Angel Deverell
Sam Neill	...	Théo
Lucy Russell	...	Nora Howe-Nevinson
Michael Fassbender	...	Esmé
Charlotte Rampling	...	Hermione
Jacqueline Tong	...	Mother Deverell
Janine Duvitski	...	Aunt Lottie
Christopher Benjamin	...	Lord Norley
Tom Georgeson	...	Marvell
Simon Woods	...	Clive Fennelly
Jemma Powell	...	Angelica
Alison Pargeter	...	Edwina
Seymour Matthews	...	Norley Doctor
Una Stubbs	...	Miss Dawson
Jo Perrin	...	Publisher's secretary
Ruth England	...	Neighbour
Rosanna Lavelle	...	Lady Irania
Geoffrey Streatfield	...	Sebastian
Roger Morlidge	...	Journalist
Teresa Churcher	...	Governess
John Rowe	...	Paradise Doctor
Edward MacLiam	...	Angelica's Husband
Oscar Redif	...	Esme's Son
Alice Hubball	...	Esme's Friend
Simon Shrimpton Smith	...	Bearded man at awards (as Simon Smith Shrimpton)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Annelien Vanderhoeght	...	Flower Girl
Roland Javornik	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
CinSyla Key	...	Young aristocrat (uncredited)

Réalisé par
François Ozon

Scénaristes
Elizabeth Taylor		(novel)
François Ozon		(written by)
François Ozon		(dialogue) &
Martin Crimp		(dialogue)

Produit par
Olivier Delbosc	....	producer
Christopher Granier-Deferre	....	co-producer
Genevieve Lemal	....	co-producer
Alexandre Lippens	....	co-producer
Marc Missonnier	....	producer
Tanya Seghatchian	....	executive producer
Bernadette Thomas	....	associate producer: Poisson Rouge Pictures

Musique originale
Philippe Rombi

Image
Denis Lenoir

Montage
Muriel Breton

Distribution des rôles
Karen Lindsay-Stewart

Création des décors
Katia Wyszkop

Direction artistique
Alexandra Lassen

Décorateur de plateau
Gérard Marcireau

Création des costumes
Pascaline Chavanne

Maquillage
Marese Langan	....	hair designer
Marese Langan	....	makeup designer
Gill Robillard	....	key makeup artist
Jill Wertz	....	makeup artist: second unit

Directeur de production
Aurore Benoît	....	assistant unit manager
Nadine Borreman	....	production manager
Didier Jacquemotte	....	unit manager
Tori Parry	....	production manager
Pierre Wallon	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Phil Booth	....	second assistant director: UK prep
Dominique Delany	....	first assistant director
Olivia Lloyd	....	second assistant director
Caroline Tambour	....	assistant director

Art Department
Benoît Bechet	....	assistant art director
Tatiana Bouchain	....	art department coordinator
Manuel Demoulling	....	chargehand stand-by props
Manuel Demoulling	....	property master
Thierry Doerflinger	....	plasterer
Peter Hallam	....	property master
Alexandra Lassen	....	assistant art director
Pascal Leguellec	....	assistant art director
Etienne Mercier	....	props
Alberto Sebastiani	....	scenic painter
Oli van der Vijver	....	stand-by prop

Technicien du son
Philippe Amouroux	....	foley recording mixer
Christian Bass	....	adr editor
Nicolas Becker	....	foley artist
Nicolas Bouvet	....	assistant sound editor
Rym Debbarh-Mounir	....	assistant sound editor
Olivier Ferrari	....	assistant sound editor
Christopher Fosh	....	adr artist
Benoît Hillebrant	....	sound editor
Dean Humphreys	....	sound re-recording mixer
Pascal Jasmes	....	boom operator
Forbes KB	....	adr artist
Pierre Mertens	....	sound

Effets spéciaux
Martin 'Marty' McLaughlin	....	snow effects floor supervisor

Visual Effects
Vadim Androussoff	....	digital compositor
Axel Bonami	....	digital compositor
Guillaume Carniato	....	digital compositor
Alain Carsoux	....	visual effects director
Solena Collignon	....	digital compositor
Jean-Nicolas Costa	....	digital restoration
Bertrand de Saint Seine	....	visual effects assistant editor
Séverine De Wever	....	visual effects coordinator
François Dupuy	....	digital intermediate technical director
Marion Frelat	....	visual effects coordinator
Thibaut Granier	....	digital compositor
Arcier Hugo	....	visual effects
Emmanuel Le Courbe	....	digital compositor
Guillaume Le Gouez	....	digital compositor
Elodie Ly Tri	....	retouch and restoration
Benoit Philippon	....	visual effects
Joel Pinto	....	digital compositor
Charlotte Quemy	....	retouch and restoration
Sebastien Rame	....	digital compositor
Olivier Ryard	....	digital compositor
Mikael Tanguy	....	digital compositor
Christian Tomikowski	....	digital compositor
Georges Tornero	....	visual effects coordinator
Daniel Trujillo	....	visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Olivier Cazzitti	....	electrician
Philippe Cointepas	....	clapper loader: UK
Dimitri Doulkeridis	....	grip
Warwick Drucker	....	additional grip
Valentina Iorio	....	grip
Témoudjine Janssens	....	grip
Jean-Claude Moireau	....	still photographer
Jean-François Roqueplo	....	key grip
Jan Rubens	....	Steadicam operator
Roel Tanghe	....	electrician
Stéphane Thiry	....	grip
Sébastien Tran	....	second assistant camera
Dirk Van Rampelbergh	....	pre-lighting gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Charlotte Finlay	....	assistant costume designer
Andrew Hunt	....	costume assistant
Finn Lee	....	costume stand-by (as Lee Croucher)

Editorial Department
Agnès Gaudet	....	assistant editor
Aurélie Laumont	....	color timer
Natacha Louis	....	digital color grader

Music Department
Jeff Atmajian	....	orchestrator
Isobel Griffiths	....	orchestra contractor
Simon Rhodes	....	music scoring mixer
Philippe Rombi	....	conductor
Philippe Rombi	....	orchestrator

Transportation Department
Alain Cools	....	star driver
Nicolas De Zuttere	....	driver: cast
Muriel Kuypers	....	star driver
Noureddine Zerrad	....	head production driver

Divers
Carrie-Ann Banner	....	assistant production coordinator
Martine Branckaert	....	assistant location manager
Nancy Brasseur	....	production accountant
Jo Cameron Brown	....	voice coach
Bruno Cassoni	....	floor runner
James Chesterton	....	key floor runner
Laurence De Windt	....	production assistant
Francesca Dowd	....	production coordinator: UK
Sam Ennis	....	catering chef
Sophie Fortat	....	production accountant
Agathe Grau	....	script supervisor
Sian Habell-Aili	....	assistant production coordinator: London
Michael Harm	....	location manager
Naomi Harvey	....	daily runner
Natasha Hook	....	unit nurse
Jérôme Jouneaux	....	unit publicist
Claude Ludovicy	....	facilities manager
Erwan Morelle	....	set production assistant: Belgium
Adrien Moscovici	....	production assistant
Daisy Sadler	....	production assistant
Iris Schoolmeesters	....	location manager trainee
Pascal Vallart	....	production accountant
Peter Van den Borre	....	location manager

Production Companies

• Fidélité Productions (presents) (as Fidelite)
• Poisson Rouge Pictures (co-production)
• SCOPE Invest (co-production)
• FOZ (in association with)
• Virtual Films (in association with)
• Wild Bunch (in association with)
• France 2 Cinéma (in association with)
• Celluloid Dreams (in association with)
• Canal+ (participation)
• TPS Star (participation)
• Soficinéma 2 (in association with)
• Soficinéma 3 (in association with)

Distributors

• Wild Bunch Distribution (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• Wild Side Vidéo (2007) (France) (DVD)
• ABC Distribution (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Budapest Film (2007) (Hungary) (theatrical)
• Cinemien (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Cinemien (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Concorde Filmverleih (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Dendy Films (2007) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Festive Films (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Filmcoopi Zürich (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Group Power (2008) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
• Homescreen (2007) (Belgium) (DVD)
• Homescreen (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• IFC Films (2009) (USA) (all media)
• Lionsgate (2008) (UK) (all media)
• Media Pro Film Distribution (2007) (Romania) (theatrical)
• Paradise Group (2007) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Rosebud (2007) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Seville Pictures (2007) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Sponge (2007) (South Korea) (theatrical)
• Toshiba Entertainment (2007) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Triangel Produksjon A/S (2007) (Finland) (theatrical)

Technicien des effets spéciaux

• Snow Business International

Other Companies

• Cinetec  grip equipment
• Location Consulting & Facilities  facilities vehicles
• London Symphony Orchestra, The (LSO)  orchestra
• Reel Meals  catering

Durée:

134 min | Germany:119 min

Pays:

UK | Belgium | France

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Classification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:12 | Germany:6 (cut) | Canada:PG | South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:7 | UK:15

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Fidélité Productions

Anecdotes:

The outdoor scenes were shot in bitterly cold weather. The camera would freeze after two minutes of shooting, and had to be taken inside and warmed up with hot towels before taken outside again. The actors did not mind this as they too could warm up between takes.

A sumptuous, deliberately melodramatic and yet genuinely heartfelt pastiche.

Francois Ozon has always veered between two very distinct styles; the more realistic, almost gritty visual style found in films such as Under the Sand and Criminal Lovers, and the highly stylised camp of Sitcom and 8 Women.

Angel definitely falls into the latter category, with its candy coloured visuals and big dramatic plot twists and character nuances harking back to the feel of Hollywood pictures from the 40s, like Gone With The Wind.

Everything is designed to imitate this era of film-making from the score, the heavily melodramatic "rags-to-riches" storyline, to even the use of rear projection during the travelling scenes. These are all implemented to increase the unreality and fantasy of the film and give it that "classic movie" feel.

At first I found the actual story and characters almost second fiddle to the look and sound of the film, but Ozon isn't out to parody, more to homage or pastiche. Angel's sudden and cartoony rise to being a prominent literary figure is silly and fun, but towards the end as her vision of fantasy starts clashing with reality, the film turns out to be unexpectedly moving.

Angel is far from being a heavily moralising tale about true love and happiness over gaudy extreme and is more a joyous celebration of fantasy over reality, a wonderful pastiche of historical romance where the girl manages to win the grumpy gloomy bachelor and runs after him in the rain as they kiss passionately under a shining rainbow as the score swirls in that classic forties way you never hear anymore.

It's a wonderful and funny and frivolous film and yet also tragic and moving at times. With this much love and joy up on screen it's such a shame some people seem to miss the point of it and criticise the "bad special effects" and "bad acting". Instead you should simply enjoy the deliberate unreality of the visuals, music and plot of this brilliant, sumptuous movie.