The Angel and the Woman

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The Angel and the Woman
L'Ange et la femme
Directed by Gilles Carle
Written by Gilles Carle
Produced by Robert Lantos
Stephen J. Roth
Starring Carole Laure
Lewis Furey
Stephen Lack
Cinematography François Protat
Edited byOphera Hallis
Music by Lewis Furey
John Lissauer
Production
company
Films RSL
Release date
  • April 7, 1977 (1977-04-07)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesFrench
English
Budget$75,000 [1]

The Angel and the Woman (French : L'Ange et la femme) is a 1977 Canadian fantasy romance film written and directed by Gilles Carle and starring Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, and Stephen Lack. [1] The film follows a woman who, after being brutally shot, dies in the snow and is resurrected by an angel who falls in love with her and eventually teaches her how to incinerate objects with her mind. [2] The film is shot entirely in black-and-white and attracted some controversy due to its explicit unsimulated sex scenes between the two leads. [3]

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This film contains non-simulated sexual acts (vaginal penetration, fellatio and ejaculation) between the two main actors, Carole Laure and Lewis Furey. It is a fact that at the beginning of filming Laure was director Gilles Carle's girlfriend. In Carle's intentions, the sex act between Laure and Furey was supposed to remain a one-off, but in fact the two actors fell in love during filming, moved in together and later married. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Harcourt, Peter (December 2007). "The Reality of Dreams: A Presentation of L'Ange et la Femme (1977)". CineAction (73/74): 15. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (6 December 2012). From the Sacred to the Divine: A New Phenomenological Approach. Springer Shop. p. 167. ISBN   9789401108461 . Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  3. Tom Newth. The Imaginary Documentaries of Montreal Filmmakers Frank Vitale, Allan Moyle, and Stephen Lack. popOptiq. February 20, 2015
  4. La Revue du cinéma, image et son, écran, 1980 at Google Books