Synopsis
8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother's demons in order to get her back.
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Cast
- Marion CotillardMarlène
- Ayline EtaixElli
- Alban LenoirJulio
- Amélie DaureChiara
- Stéphane RideauJean
- Mario MagalhaesBoris
- Joël Boudjelta
- Stefano CassettiMichel
- Pascal ParmentierHomme boîte de nuit #1
- Jean-Michel CorreiaHomme boîte de nuit #2
Recommendations
- 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Cotillard, looking like one of the most glamorous white-trash fantasy figures in the history of the movies, has a hypnotic quality that will make you follow her character whatever she says or does. - 50
Screen Daily
The entire cast does their best with borderline hackneyed material, and the proceedings are nicely shot by ace DP Guillaume Schiffman. - 42
IndieWire
The debut feature from writer-director Vanessa Filho is a trite story about a walking disaster and the daughter caught her in path, the tedious melodrama only finding a heartbeat when it abandons the lead character and searches for change. - 42
The Playlist
Despite youngster Aksoy-Etaix’s commendable performance, not only will you not believe, you also won’t care. - 40
The Guardian
Filho’s film is never less than heartfelt and strident, like a tale torn from life, or an episode of Jeremy Kyle played as stentorian opera. And this, I suspect, may be part of the problem. Crucially, Angel Face lacks shading, pacing and nuance. - 30
Variety
Filho obviously wants to convey the naive outlook an impressionable young girl would have on her own situation, but there’s far too much manipulation involved to take her selection of scenes seriously.
