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The Dreamlife of Angels

La vie rêvée des anges

France

1998

113 Min
Color
1.66:1
French
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DIR Erick Zonca

PROD François Marquis

SCR Erick Zonca, Roger Bohbot, Virginie Wagon, Pierre Chosson

DP Agnès Godard, Dominique Le Rigoleur

CAST Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, Patrick Mercado, Jo Prestia

ED Yannick Kergoat

MUSIC Yann Tiersen

Cannes (In Competition): Best Actress, Telluride, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), San Sebastián, New York

Synopsis

In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who’s flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life’s love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go? —IMDb

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Erick Zonca

Erick Zonca (born September 10, 1956, in Orléans, France) is a French film director, best known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels. The film won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. His first films were the shorts Rives (1992), Eternelles (1995), and Seule (1997). Zonca’s second feature was Le Petit Voleur (The Little Thief) (1999). His most recent, Julia (2008), based on John Cassavetes’ 1980 movie Gloria, starred Tilda Swinton and was shot in California and Mexico. —Wikipedia 

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chanandre

29Dec11

What a superb title: La Vie Rêvée des Anges? Could you get cuter than this? Je ne crois pas. Et Élodie? Bof. Toujours belle, toujours pertinente.

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cauana

2Nov11

lindo, terrível, verossímil

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superjano

21Aug10

I love you, Élodie...

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oldblackdawning

22Jul10

A terrific and moving film.

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