A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
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Cast
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| Jamel Debbouze | ... | André Moussah | |
| Rie Rasmussen | ... | Angel-A | |
| Gilbert Melki | ... | Franck | |
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Serge Riaboukine | ... | Pedro |
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Akim Chir | ... | Le chef des malfrats |
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Eric Balliet | ... | Garde du corps Franck |
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Loïc Pora | ... | Le malfrat #2 |
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Venus Boone | ... | La mère d'Angela |
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Jérôme Guesdon | ... | Le malfrat #3 |
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Michel Bellot | ... | Le planton US |
| Michel Chesneau | ... | Le flic commissariat | |
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Olivier Claverie | ... | Le sécrétaire US |
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Solange Milhaud | ... | La femme de Saint-Lazare |
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Laurent Jumeaucourt | ... | Le dragueur |
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Franck-Olivier Bonnet | ... | Le dernier client |
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André, a small-time ex-convict, seems to owe money to everyone in Paris, including a crime boss who promises to kill him if he doesn't repay him by midnight. After failing to find protection from the American embassy and the French police, a despairing André scrambles onto a bridge over the Seine, intending to leap to his death. He is surprised to see a tall, beautiful girl clinging to a rail on the same bridge, apparently preparing to end her life as well. She jumps, and he jumps too, suddenly resolving to save her life. After scrambling ashore, she tells him her name is Angel-A. Together, they take a cruise on the Seine, repay André's creditors, visit a Parisian nightspot, and more, as Angel-A helps André. He learns that for this purpose she has fallen out of the sky and into his life. André finds himself falling in love with this mysterious beauty. Written by Charles Delacroix
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Rated R for language and some sexual content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
FranceRelease Date:
21 December 2005 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
€15,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$1,436,391 (France), 23 December 2005Opening Weekend USA:
$39,234, 27 May 2007, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$202,200, 30 September 2007Company Credits
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Luc Besson once claimed that he would only ever direct a maximum of 10 films. Angel-A (2005) is his tenth movie. Obviously Besson has broken that promise - the 2013 release of The Family (2013) marked his 16th film. See more »Goofs
When Andre climbs over the railing of the bridge, he's coat is fastened by a single button. Suddenly, when he watches the outgoing police car, there are more buttons fastened. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Angel-a can be described as a romantic comedy, as a movie about angels and as one about therapy. As a romantic comedy it is a good and charming film, which stands far away from the omnipresent and boring Hollywood romantic comedies. As a movie about angels it is not convincing, and the best it can be said in its favour is that the movie is an heterodox rendering of angels, half divine and half too-human.
But the best use that can be given to this film is to adopt it as a manual of cognitive or rational-emotive therapy. A well respected field within psychology, cognitive therapy looks for transforming distorted thinking, which it is said, affects the mood, the behaviour and the life of people. That is simply what Angel-a does with Andre, giving him reasons to love himself, and teaching him techniques to change the way he thinks or speaks of himself. If we go to cinema some times to enjoy ourselves and some times to bring something to our lives, this movie allows us to do both. Art and cinema have also ethical consequences -in the sense of Foucault- giving us clues about how to live our lives better. In this sense the best description of Angel-a is given above by Elizabeth Arthur when she says that this is "a film about learning to love yourself".
Only one question remains: Why a director like Besson, who has been making movies about violence, decides to read about cognitive therapy and bring angels to earth and make a film like this?