Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing.
Overview
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.
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There's not a single encounter in The Dreamlife of Angels that isn't vivid and emotionally full.
Completely absorbing, almost rudely poignant.
As raw and immediate as it is heartfelt.
It's so graceful and intelligent and complicated in its depiction of human interaction that it takes the notion of a remarkably assured directorial debut to a new level.
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