| Marie from the Bay of Angels | |
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| Directed by | Manuel Pradal |
| Screenplay by | Manuel Pradal |
| Produced by | Philippe Rousselet[1] |
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| Edited by | Valérie Deseine |
Production companies | La Sept Cinéma Lelia Films Les Films de la Suane Les Films des Tournelles Studio Images 2 |
Release date | 1997 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Marie from the Bay of Angels (French: Marie Baie des Anges), also known as Angel Sharks, is a 1997 French movie, written and directed by Manuel Pradal.[1][2]
Cast
- Vahina Giocante : Marie
- Frédéric Malgras : Orso
- Nicolas Welbers : Goran
- Amira Casar : The girl in the villa
- Swan Carpio : Jurec
- Jamie Harris : Jimmy
- Andrew Clover : Andy
- Roxane Mesquida : Mireille
- Aurelie Morardet : Corinne
- John Dowling : John
- Patrick Serray : Bob
- Brigitte Roüan : Paule
Music
The film's score was composed by Carlo Crivelli. Its soundtrack included songs by J J Cale, Beth Hirsch's "I Could Love You Too", and "Oba, La Vem Ela" by Jorge Ben.[3]
Reception
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1 out of 4. Ebert was critical of the leading lady "Giocante has been billed as "the new Bardot," and she's off to a good start: Bardot didn't make many good films, either." Ebert was unimpressed by the "recycling exhausted cliches" and found the non-sequential storytelling exhausting, but gave some praise for the scenery, compositions, and "pretty pictures". He concludes "Giocante and Malgras are superficially attractive, although because their characters are empty vessels there's no reason to like them much, or care about them. The movie is cast as a tragedy, and it's tragic, all right: tragic that these kids never developed intelligence and personalities."[4]
Accolades
The film was in competition for the Tiger Award at the 1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Marie Baie des Anges". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ↑ SPIN Media LLC (August 1998). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. pp. 58–. ISSN 0886-3032.
- ↑ "Marie Baie des Anges (1997) - Music". TCM. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ Ebert, Roger (September 4, 1998). "Marie Baie des Anges movie review (1998)". Chicago Sun-Times.
External links
- Marie from the Bay of Angels at IMDb
- Marie Baie des Anges — AlloCiné