With est la vie “Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for a second that I am one of them.”
Isa and Marie.
Director Eric Zonka is remembered for the film Julia with Tilda Swinton in the lead roles, and of course, just this youth drama Imaginary Life of Angels. At one time, the Cannes Film Festival very hotly accepted this film, and the play of young Elodie Boucher and did celebrate the Golden Palm. What is interesting about this French film?
The fact is that the story shown is unusual and as realistic as possible. We seem not to have seen the film at all, but looked into the window of someone’s real story. and the story here is dramatic and tearing into pieces.
Two young girls, Isa and Marie, met at the factory. Isa has no place of residence and works, and lives where she can. Marie allows her to live with her, although she does not live in her apartment. The girls begin to live together there, once lived a girl who is now paralyzed and lies in the hospital. Isa found her diary and went to see her. We see the story of girls' friendships, and everyone gets what they shake. . .
We are visited by angels, but we do not know them until they fly away.
The heroine Iza is a very kind character, and from her emanates the energy of warmth, radiance and something beautiful. Boucher really played her wonderfully. Her character is kind of native, and the viewer feels her well, understands her.
Marie's different. She's alienated and cold. She finds her salvation in a relationship with a rich guy, and although Isa is against her communication with him, Marie does not listen to her.
The history of friendship, the history of youth and life itself. The film has subtext and depth. Isa is kind and she dreams of an angelic relationship between all people. She wants everyone to be kind, to understand each other and not to do nasty things. The world is completely different, and Isa, although she lives in a terrible reality, falls into an even greater drama. Her harmony in the soul saves the girl and leads her on the right path.
Although the film and little-known in our Russian box office, in fact, the Imaginary Life of Angels is a strong drama, but it is exclusively for fans of European cinema. The film is clean and real, but not everyone will appreciate it. I am sure that anyone who needs to see it will see it.
Two lives met and walked together for some time, but each has its own destiny, its own choice, and before us is a tragic story full of hopes, dreams, youth, death and life. Natasha Rainier, although the role is more dramatic, but Elodie Boucher overplays all the attention on herself. She is the heart of this film. I was deeply shocked by Elody’s performance in this picture, and it’s just bravo.
Imaginary Life of Angels is a 1998 French youth drama. The bottom line is a true, heartbreaking story for connoisseurs of something real. The movie is not bad, and in the memory it remained as something painful and bleeding.
An angel is not a beautiful man with wings, but one who helps others.
7 out of 10