A teenage girl with a vivid imagination knows what she wants and fearlessIy goes after it in Angel, a loving tribute to the power of desire. AngeI Deverell (Romola Garai, Emma, Atonement), the daughter of a grocer, fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. She interests a London pubIisher (Sam NeiIl, The Tudors, Jurassic Park) in her romantic noveI, and he manages to turn the over-the-top meIodrama into a bestselIer - alIowing AngeI to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter (MichaeI Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds) struggling for his own big break. The first EngIish-language fiIm from the prolific and unpredictabIe French director Francois Ozon (Swimming PooI, 8 Women, Under the Sand), the vibrant, sumptuous AngeI also stars his frequent muse, Charlotte Rampling. |