Character: Angel Deverell

When you look through literature, there's a real lineage of those characters. Becky in Vanity Fair, Emma in Emma, Gwendolyn in Daniel Deronda - these are all highly ambitious women whose goals have been challenged into social mobility. Many people think that Angel is incredibly unattractive with no redeeming features at all, but I never felt that way. She has these great, abiding flaws, but she's also quite an impressive character. When you look at the choices she makes - to devote her life to literature and reject motherhood, to marry for love, to make her own money - and put them in the context of the era, that's unheard of. -- Romola Garai (FilmInk, November 2007)

England, 1905 is the setting for Ozon's sweeping epic that charts the radiant rise and devastating fall of florid romance writer, Angel Deverell (Romola Garai).

Beautiful, precocious, talented and above all, burningly ambitious for fame, love and a life far beyond her humble beginnings, Ozon's adaptation of Elizabeth Taylor's novel bares all the hallmarks of classic Hollywood productions of the 1930s and 1940s.

With an excellent supporting cast featuring Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, Lucy Russell and Michael Fassbender, Angel is full of drama, subversive sexuality and humour; an engrossing fantasy, that finds Ozon at the height of his directorial powers.


    


          


                

     IMAGE GALLERY

WATCH THE TRAILER
FIRST FIVE MINUTES
ANGEL SCENE CLIP #1
ANGEL SCENE CLIP #2
ANGEL SCENE CLIP #3
ANGEL SCENE CLIP #4
FEATURETTES : Book to film, Angel Deverell, Angel and Esme, co-stars Rampling and Neill, Nora and Angel, A French director and English actors, Set decorations and costumes, Final word
INTERVIEW #1
INTERVIEW #2
INTERVIEW #3
Berlin Film Festival Coverage


Visit the official website
angel-lefilm.com

C) Fidélité Films 2007