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December 23, 2005
Secret cinema: Besson's latest materializes
Screen International's Benny Crick reviews Luc Besson's first pic in six years, Angel-A, shot with the same speed and secrecy this past summer as Munich, with slightly different results. "The French film industry’s best-kept secret of 2005, the offbeat romance was shot on the sly in Paris last summer... from a script that Besson wrote a decade ago, then put aside. Taking the familiar boy-meets-girl (in Paris) plot, Besson overlays it with a supernatural premise: that the girl is a female angel sent down to Earth to help a sympathetic sleazebag... Released in France on Dec 21 without press or preview screenings—although with a good deal of last minute media promos—it remains to be seen how Besson’s core youth audience will take to the film...
"Returning to the black and white of his 1983 debut [Le derniere combat], Besson turns mid-summer Paris into the film’s third main character, as Thierry Arbogast’s lush photography gives the script a timeless, fable-like quality.... The recurring leitmotif of Paris bridges also recalls an earlier and more insanely ambitious Paris-set boy-meets-girl tale, Leos Carax’s Les Amants Du Pont Neuf." [The trailer's up at the Angel-A website; click on bande annonce.]
Posted by pride at December 23, 2005 08:31 AM
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