Marie from the Bay of Angels

Marie from the Bay of Angels
Directed by	Manuel Pradal
Screenplay by	Manuel Pradal
Produced by	Philippe Rousselet [1]
Starring	Vahina Giocante Frédéric Malgras
Cinematography	Christophe Pollock
Edited by	Valérie Deseine
Music by	Carlo Crivelli
Production companies	La Sept Cinéma Lelia Films Les Films de la Suane Les Films des Tournelles Studio Images 2
Distributed by	Pyramide Distribution
Release date	1997 (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 as Marie
• Frédéric Malgras as Orso
• Nicolas Welbers as Goran
• Amira Casar as The Girl In The Villa
• Swan Carpio as Jurec
• Jamie Harris as Jimmy
• Andrew Clover as Andy
• Roxane Mesquida as Mireille
• Aurelie Morardet as Corinne
• John Dowling as John
• Patrick Serray as Bob
• Brigitte Roüan as 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. "Marie Baie des Anges". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2017-05-21. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
2. SPIN Media LLC (August 1998). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. pp. 58–. ISSN   0886-3032.
3. "Marie Baie des Anges (1997) - Music". TCM. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
4. Ebert, Roger (September 4, 1998). "Marie Baie des Anges movie review (1998)". Chicago Sun-Times . Archived from the original on June 22, 2020. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

External links

• Marie from the Bay of Angels at IMDb
• Marie Baie des Anges — AlloCiné