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Angélique. In France, prior to Louis XIV ascending the throne, a young baroness is forced to marry against her will and is caught up in a web of treachery and murder, threatening her and her husband, whom she has come to love deeply.
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- Adventure, History, Romance
- Ariel Zeitoun
- 2013-12-18
- All Them Dark Things
- Shaved Heads, Cold Showers
- Striking Presence
- In Conclusion: Angelica
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...
10 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 1/10. Insufferable. Simon-Rogopag 13 April 2020. The new Angelique to me is a sign of everything that's wrong with the French TV of last 20 or maybe even 30 years.
Mar 13, 2020 · The play by the late Canadian actor, playwright and director Lorena Gale tracks the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a young, black slave in 18th-century Montreal who had an independent spirit and dreamed of freedom.
Angélique is a 2013 French period drama and adventure film loosely based on the 1956 novel Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels by Anne Golon. [3]
In the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer.
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Book reviews: Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times; A 2013 press kit featuring an interview with the author about the books and films; A 2013 article from Le Monde documenting the history of the franchise (in French)
