My cringe-o-meter broke with this one. This movie was always cheesy, but it aged so bad. It is so mysoginistic, falls in all the common places it could possibly do, the last minutes were so violent, with thos supposed good guy yanking her by the arm repeatedly and pulling violently her hair. I was so disgusted remembering how media depicted romamce 20 years ago, I made th8s account just to rant over it.

Amazing beautiful movie. A must see!

such an original fresh movie, love this

Eu não descartaria esse filme sem ver. Acho que apesar de "ruim" vale a pena ser visto. Tem uma proposta diferente, mas nada surpreendente.

I started watching this film because I thought it was in a supernatural or Sci-Fi genre movie. "Wait.. it's in Black and White? The audio is in French!? Ohhh Man!" I decided to watch for a few minutes to see where the story was going, and got totally involved. Early on there were a couple of times where I actually laughed. Then entered actress Rie Rasmussen's, character, which confirmed I was correct to finish watching the movie. I think the film is fun, and interesting. I'm glad I stuck with it. I note that some viewers got caught up in the "message" of the film. I just enjoyed it for the plot and the performances of the actors.

There is clearly something wrong when the majority of the critics don't like a movie but 3/4 of the people who see it do... It's a little silly. Perhaps a bit of a boy's fantasy. But Luc Besson has an amazing eye, and cine noir Paris is gorgeous through his lens. The conclusion is a bit trite, but there are elements of a story here that I have never seen before. I love that you never actually know what's true and what's not about Angela. It may be a guardian angel story, but the twists are new and fun.

I think the first thing that must be discussed about Angel-A is the casting. I’d never heard of either of these actors before watching the movie but they were so perfect for the roles. Having a short hairy Jamel Debbouze as the insecure liar who keeps getting himself into trouble works great, but even better is when he is contrasted with the tall and beautifully statuesque Rie Rasmussen. They are such an odd and unlikely pair that it works for this story. I love their interactions, and the contrast between the two of them. Perhaps even more remarkable is how they show the change in each of them as they spend more time together and start to rub off on one another. The emotional impact of the climax at the end of this film hit me like a ton of bricks, and a lot of that is because Rasmussen and Debbouze play out all that emotion so powerfully. There was also another intense moment earlier in the movie that made me tear up, because of what was happening and how well the actors performed the scene. There are definitely some fuzzy plot points in this movie, and I was at times a bit confused at how Angela was influencing the people they came in contact with, to do things that are totally out of character. It feels like there would be a lot of people still ready to seek retribution on André, but there are several unexplained magical things going on, so I guess we’re just supposed to let that go and assume everything will be fine. I wasn’t interested in nitpicking the film too much after I was done watching because it made me feel so good. There is a surprising amount of heart in this story, and I love some of the messages that it teaches. It focuses a great deal on the value of truth, and the power of self-confidence. I’m not sure the ending was perfect, even if it felt good, it didn’t play quite right. The conclusion threatened to undermine some of the messaging up to that point. However, when I watch this again, I might appreciate the finale more and see how it ties into the overall themes. And that’s the most important point, no matter what flaws I might have seen in the movie, I didn’t say “IF I watch this again, “ I said “WHEN” because Angel-A is a solid movie that I expect to watch multiple times in the future.

Some interesting elements, but it just didn't come together in a memorable way.

one of my fav romance movie of all time <3

ctitics are useless, how i havent saw that long ago.

Story wise it´s a good start, gets exasperating and boring in the middle and cringeworthy by the end.

If Luc Besson wanted to do any art, he was not close to achieve it. Or is the film bad or boring, but what object does it has? It contains an argument whose intention is to have fun, to feel at times sadness, euphoria, excitement and empathy among the characters. It is not that one is confused with everything, but in fact not even Besson knew what he wanted to convey. Angel-a is a French film of the story of a man who, desperate, is saved by this woman before committing suicide. Anything else to add? No, Angela is a mystical being made of senseless cinematographic resources that are organized in a fateful way and that prevent understanding what it is in itself. Filled with Parisian streets characterized for being the nucleus of miles of romantic stories, a nonsensical love develops with that black and white effect which unleashes the director's desire to make a good movie whose metaphysical elements that are stolen from other films never match . The film can entertain and the plot itself has a couple of nice ideas even though the final part of the movie has nothing of quality to offer.

Being Luc Besson’s foray away from genrefilmmaking back towards a more character-oriented film, Angel-A sounded like a potentially stylish piece of world cinema. It would appear that in the many years since Leon: The Professional (1994), Luc Besson has forgotten how to direct a feature with any actual characters whatsoever. Seeing as this is his first film as a director since The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), his continued trend of insufficient director reminds us how much his better days are behind him. The problem with Angel-A being a character piece is the fact that it doesn't actually have any characters to come with it. Throughout the film we gather nothing about the protegonist's story, leaving his past completely enigmatic. The elusive nature of the character is maintained over the course of the story as we gather an understanding of his identity based on how he interacts with the titular character Angel-A rather than who he is. But this isn't interesting in the slightest. Seriously, not at all. The story in Angel-A centres around two shallow characters who have nothing interesting to say or do as we see a strange bond develop between them. It's clear that much of the film has been influenced by the brilliance of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) which was also about two strangers who learned everything they needed to about each other during a brief chance encounter in a French setting. But while Richard Linklater found brilliance in a film which essentially had no plot and just characters, Luc Besson forsakes both. The man is recognised for his tendency to steal themes from Hollywood films to the point that he was recently sued for copying the plot of Escape from New York (1981) in his far lesser action thriller Lockout (2012), and Angel-A depicts him doing the exact same thing with a drama. This doesn't make any sense because the director has rarely made anything successful in terms of genuine character drama. While Leon: The Professional (1994) remains nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece, a large asset to the film's success was its concept on top of its characters. The director is a man who specialised in concepts, and even when he made non-genre specific films such as Subway (1985) and Le Grand Bleu (1988). With Angel-A, there is almost no concept. For some reason there is a fantasy element as an afterthought which feels heavily plagiarised from Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) yet ultimately couldn't have less to do with the plot and just doesn't make sense. In a film which is about literally nothing, the fantasy aspect of the story has nothing to do with the rest of it. So by the end of the film, it simply feels like audiences have sat through an overly long slideshow of pretty pictures which seems to pretend as if it has a story. Angel-A is the kind of film which takes the director back to his early days in popularising the cinema du look movement. This movement came into play as a new wave of French cinema which was focused mixing themes from high and low class films as the backdrop to a dominant focus on visual brilliance. While this was progressive back in its heyday, now it's just a tiring chore to sit through again. Luc Besson's directorial debut was a black-and-white silent film called Le Dernier Combat (1983), a popular film to which critic Dave Kehr called the absence of dialogue "an effective alibi for a technically proficient filmmaker who really has nothing to say." In Angel-A, we can see this all over again without the same spectacle of a genre film to hide it. There's only so visual you can get when making a romantic drama, and Angel-A hits the limit with it. The black-and-white colour palette gives the film a soothing feeling while the cinematography is absolutely beautifully executed, but the material that all this captures is far from sufficient. This is not the kind of film that Luc Besson is the appropriate director to make because his specialisation is in being a genre filmmaker rather than the creator on intricate drama. The genre in Angel-A fails to establish itself because it's an offbeat romantic drama with inconsistent elements of fantasy and comedy. While the film is pretty and some moments are visually pleasing, it doesn't entertain in any of the generic responsibilities that it takes on. The dialogue is so dull that I cannot actually remember a single thing that was said in the films and don't care enough to try while the entire relationship between the two central characters is too melodramatic to effectively elicit any laughs. And like I said, the fantasy element is just too arbitrary for its own good. The film may only be 90 minutes long, but any feature length film where nothing happens and there is no gimmicks clever enough to distract audiences from its lack of script does not have the right to exist as a film. Viewers with a low standard for storytelling may appreciate the visual style, but audiences who know exactly what Luc Besson is worst at will get to experience it in a lifeless dramatic form rather than in any overblown format where action scenes and visual effects are enough to disguise it all. Some audiences may appreciate his ambition to step back from creating an overblown spectacle for once and focus on the simpler aspects of a film, but the issue is that he brings the same errors he has applied to every overblown one-dimension action thriller he has spawned and transfers them into a small scale character drama. The result is a suggestion that he is not the kind of man who can actually work on a low budget given how small the costs were for Angel-A. But since his big budget films aren't always that much better, he just can't catch a break either way. Angel-A carries poetic cinematography, but it also has the same one-dimensional characters and lack of a story from Luc Besson's lesser films without enough of a spectacle to hide it.

Very sweet and romantical with a nice little moral to the story :)

La película me gusta y mas que la dirige Luc Beson, que a veces va de lo muy malo a lo bueno, me parece un argumento interesante y me gusto mucho, no se si este sentido del humor agrade a todos

An overlooked gem from Luc Besson

París nunca se había visto tan bonito a blanco y negro.

Sweetly captivating, very original.

Not as horrible as it could have been, but far from good.

A beautiful looking and charming romantic comedy that is almost infinitely watchable, a welcome return for director, Luc Besson.