
André, a small-time ex-convict, seems to owe money to everyone in Paris, including a crime boss who promises to kill him if he doesn't repay him by midnight. After failing to find protection from the American embassy and the French police, a despairing André scrambles onto a bridge over the Seine, intending to leap to his death. He is surprised to see a tall, beautiful girl clinging to a rail on the same bridge, apparently preparing to end her life as well. She jumps, and h... (Full plot summary below)
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André, a small-time ex-convict, seems to owe money to everyone in Paris, including a crime boss who promises to kill him if he doesn't repay him by midnight. After failing to find protection from the American embassy and the French police, a despairing André scrambles onto a bridge over the Seine, intending to leap to his death. He is surprised to see a tall, beautiful girl clinging to a rail on the same bridge, apparently preparing to end her life as well. She jumps, and he jumps too, suddenly resolving to save her life. After scrambling ashore, she tells him her name is Angel-A. Together, they take a cruise on the Seine, repay André's creditors, visit a Parisian nightspot, and more, as Angel-A helps André. He learns that for this purpose she has fallen out of the sky and into his life. André finds himself falling in love with this mysterious beauty.
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| Seattle TimesTed FryLuc Besson returns to his roots in this delightful, funny and stylish fantasy. Shot in gloriously crisp black and white, it's also a bit of a throwback to the French New Wave for its technique and dazzling location vignettes across Paris. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerUnder the lingerie model façade beats the heart of a celestial Dr. Phil. |
| OhmyNews.comBrian OrndorfAngel-A is a dear, surprising film - one of the best Besson has put out into the world. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestA visually arresting odd-couple comedy that reveals itself to be, quite literally, It's a Wonderful Life with a bimbo! |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonAngel-A is counterfeit art-house chic writ large -- a French film that fails to produce the ineffable charms of the yesteryear movies it brazenly imitates. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiUltimately too slight a work on which to end a directorial career. |
| AV ClubNathan RabinAt heart, it's just the latest from one-man industry Luc Besson, so even though it looks like art, it plays like schlock. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe overall experience of the movie is of something fresh. |
| Zertinet MoviesSteven SnyderWhat's at once refreshing and disorienting about the way Luc Besson -- one of the most interesting international visionaries at work today -- handles the story is his attempt to de-romanticize one of the most idealistic and sublime formulas around. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAngel-A shows how director Luc Besson can be French in a way that even the French might despise...Quel ick. And très tedious. |