Saint Ange (2004)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Pascal Laugier

Writer:

Pascal Laugier (writer)

Release Date:

23 June 2004 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

You're staying here alone? Are you sure?

Plot:

In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with...

Plot Keywords:

Orphanage | Death Of Daughter | Foetus | Kitten | Elevator

Cast

Virginie Ledoyen	...	Anna Jurin
Lou Doillon	...	Judith
Catriona MacColl	...	Francard
Dorina Lazar	...	Helenka
Virginie Darmon	...	Mathilde
Jérôme Soufflet	...	Daniel
Marie Herry	...	Marie
Eric Prat	...	Le responsable des services sociaux
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marin Chouquet	...	Alex

Also Known As:

House of Voices (International: English title) (USA) (DVD title)
Sanatorium (France) (working title)
St. Ange (Philippines: English title) (poster title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some nudity and disturbing images.

Runtime:

France:98 min | Philippines:99 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Malaysia:18SG | Malaysia:U (cut) | UK:15 | USA:R | France:-12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (edited version) | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Castel Film Romania

Trivia:

In Mexico the film was released with the title "El Convento" ("The Convent") as the action happens in an orphanage. In fact, you can see only two nuns in the movie

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Anna breaks the glass in the bathroom and tries to get in, a man with a camera can be seen in the remaining mirror.

Soundtrack:

I'm in the mood for love

Such a bad movie, and not even a "good" bad movie .......

Where should I begin? I know, the script, which is where the writer-director should have begun when he started this piece of crap! There is no story, the plot is weak, and the ending is frustrating because the director Pascal Laugier has no idea what he is doing.

The first five minutes are the best part of the movie, and everything else goes downhill quickly from there. Technically, it's not a bad movie. But everything else is so awful. I would have given this movie a zero, but 1 is the lowest score available on IMDb.

Even the worst Hollywood movies have more of a storyline than "Saint-Ange" and what in the world happened to Virginie Ledoyen? Why is she doing crappy horror movies like this? "The Beach" looks like a masterpiece compared to the trash of "Saint-Ange" !

If you want to see a good horror movie with better acting and directing and plot, go see "Haute Tension" by Alexandre Aja. He's a talented French director who knows what he is doing.

Pascal Laugier should go back to directing making-of videos for Christophe Gans. It's where he belongs.