137 mins |
Rated
M
Directed by Francois Ozon
Starring Michael Fassbender, Sam Neill, Romola Garai, Charlotte Rampling
EAGLEHAWK FILM FESTIVAL JANUARY 12-14 2024
AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
Angel Deverell comes of age in Edwardian Cheshire knowing she will be a great writer. Rising above her class (her widowed mother has a grocery shop), Angel finds a publisher and a wide audience for her frothy romances. With royalties, she buys an estate, then she’s smitten by Esme, a rake from local aristocracy and an artist of dark temperament. She hires Esme’s sister Nora, who dotes on her, as a personal assistant, and pursues Esme. Angel is grandly self-centred, colouring her world as if it were one of her novels. When the Great War breaks out and reality begins to trump her will, can Angel hold on to her man and her public? Inspired by the life of Marie Corelli. An all-star cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling and Michael Fassbender.
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EAGLEHAWK FILM FESTIVAL JANUARY 12-14 2024
AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
Angel Deverell comes of age in Edwardian Cheshire knowing she will be a great writer. Rising above her class (her widowed mother has a grocery shop), Angel finds a publisher and a wide audience for her frothy romances. With royalties, she buys an estate, then she’s smitten by Esme, a rake from local aristocracy and an artist of dark temperament. She hires Esme’s sister Nora, who dotes on her, as a personal assistant, and pursues Esme. Angel is grandly self-centred, colouring her world as if it were one of her novels. When the Great War breaks out and reality begins to trump her will, can Angel hold on to her man and her public? Inspired by the life of Marie Corelli. An all-star cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling and Michael Fassbender.