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Angelica is a 2015 American horror thriller film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. The film is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Arthur Phillips. The film stars Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, and Tovah Feldshuh. [1] It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. [2]
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Set in Victorian London, Jena Malone (The Neon Demon) plays Constance, a virginal shop girl swept off her feet by Ed Stoppard’s Doctor Joseph Barton, a well-heeled research scientist with grand plans to cure all disease. When Constance almost dies in child birth, doctors advise her to cease penetrative sex with Joseph, as it could further damage he...
To Constance, sex has seemingly become something sinful and dangerous, for which she will be punished. This is underlined in a scene when Joseph presses her into giving him, ahem, “oral relief”. But the act is interrupted when young Angelica starts coughing and spluttering, as if choking, in her bedroom next door. Constance is briefly convinced she...
Angelica’s themes and ideas wouldn’t come across nearly so powerfully if Lichtenstein’s film didn’t fire on all cylinders elsewhere, too. Despite what I suspect is a small budget, Angelica is a sumptuously-appointed piece of work, for which we can thank Mike Leigh’s regular director of photography Dick Pope, and Rita Ryack’s elegant costuming. It h...
This is a real return to form for Lichtenstein after the powerfully cast (Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn and Ellen Barkin) but ultimately rather disappointing Happy Tears. Angelicais a slow burn but rewards patience as the director takes his time to lay out his themes, introduce his characters and slowly ratchet up the melodrama. It doesn’t ent...
A couple living in Victorian London endures an unusual series of psychological and supernatural happenings following the birth of their child. In Victorian England, sexual repression opens a rift between young couple Constance and Joseph after the birth of their daughter Angelica.
Feb 12, 2015 · Following a brief and wholly unnecessary prologue in which London stage actress Angelica (Malone) is ushered to the bedside of her dying mother, Constance (Glynnis O’Connor), the movie enters a...
Feb 9, 2015 · An unusual and often hauntingly strange film, Angelica is given life thanks to Jena Malone’s impressive performance, which juggles mounting hysteria with a gentle sense of passion.
You can buy "Angelica" on Apple TV, Sky Store, Microsoft Store as download or rent it on Apple TV, Microsoft Store, Sky Store online. Synopsis A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
- 95 min
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