2005 · fantasy · romance · comedy
Angel-A
Directed by Luc Besson1h 31m2005
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Our read: Angel-A (2005) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · romance · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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“You want black-and-white Paris fantasy romance with Besson whimsy.”
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