Synopsis
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
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Cast
- Lorenzo FerroCarlitos
- Chino DarínRamón
- Mercedes MoránAna María
- Daniel FanegoJosé
- Luis GneccoHéctor
- Cecilia RothAurora
- Malena VillaTwins
- William Prociuk'Federica'
- Marcelo D'AndreaPolice Commissioner
- Peter LanzaniMiguel Prieto
Recommendations
- 91
Uproxx
The Angel is funny as hell, outrageous without feeling sensational, visually beautiful, and immensely enjoyable as unpredictable eye candy. It’s one of those movies that’s so fun that it ends up feeling much shorter than it actually is. - 80
Screen Daily
This is stylish, commercial storytelling that marks a big leap forward for Ortega and should put Lorenzo Ferro on the map. - 75
Slant Magazine
El Angel‘s greatest accomplishment is in the way it charges the relationships between characters with so much eroticism but never grants us the right to watch desire — other than desire for violence — actually unfold. - 70
Los Angeles Times
El Angel doesn’t offer any concrete answers, and though it paints a vivid portrait of this real-life devil, the fact is that ultimately, we end up seduced by him as well. - 65
Vanity Fair
The movie is compelling in the moment, but seems irresponsible with any afterthought. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
While Angel brings little new to the lexicon of serial killer biopics, it hits the target as an effortlessly palatable aesthetic experience, more shiny period pageant than probing character study. - 60
Variety
Ortega shows more interest in the how than the why. He mines the scenes of violence for black comedy, rendering the bloodletting anticlimactic and the victims largely irrelevant, and Ferro’s baby-faced, bright eyed disingenuity suits that agenda perfectly. - 60
L.A. Weekly
El Angel is a crime spree as improvised reverie, one with a subject who is as quick to give away his loot as the director is to make the subtext explicit.
