Synopsis
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
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Cast
- Daniel BrühlThomas Lang
- Kate BeckinsaleSimone Ford
- Cara DelevingneMelanie
- Ava AcresBea
- Corrado InvernizziFrancesco
- Genevieve GauntJessica Fuller
- Sai BennettElizabeth Pryce
- Valerio MastandreaEdoardo
- Andrea TidonaPubblico Ministero Alberto Baldini
- Peter SullivanJames Pryce
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
Michael Winterbottom's film is a mess of tones, but not of ideas, which could well sum up the director's prodigious but uneven oeuvre. - 60
CineVue
Winterbottom's The Face of an Angel makes for compelling viewing, painting an arresting character portrait even if it avoids the direct engagement with the original (and much-discussed) crime that some people may have been expecting. - 60
Empire
On one level a fascinating refraction of the Amanda Knox trial into an examination of perception, on another an increasingly trying hall of mirrors. - 50
Village Voice
The Face of an Angel may not be like any other whodunit you've seen, but it's also only superficially smarter than the genre it defines itself against. - 50
The A.V. Club
Past Winterbottom films have turned “real life” into both comedy and tragedy. The Face Of An Angel turns it into a directionless skulk. - 42
The Playlist
The idea of turning a true crime story into a intellectual cinematic exercise is novel, and could be witty and sharp, but 'Angel' never comes across that way. - 40
The Telegraph
Winterbottom’s shapeshifting spontaneity has long seemed as much limitation as virtue, characteristic of a filmmaker unable or unwilling to commit to his own better ideas. Here, you feel him hedging around his subject, less out of sensitivity than a constitutional evasiveness, an inability to formulate a clear line of argument. - 35
TheWrap
The Face of an Angel is opaque in every way. Winterbottom will make another great movie. But if he didn’t want to make the Amanda Knox story, why did he so halfheartedly try?
