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Erick Zonca-La Vie rêvée des anges (1998)

Posted By: FNB47

Date: 20 Mar 2007 17:09:00

Erick Zonca-La Vie rêvée des anges (1998)
| 1442.3 MB | Runtime 1:52:48 | color |
Language : French
Optional subtitles : English / Turkish
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Two very different young women share the joy and heartbreak of friendship in this internationally acclaimed award-winning drama. Isa (Elodie Bouchez) is an optimistic wanderer eking out an existence for herself working odd jobs, while backpacking across the French countryside. She lands a job at a dress factory where she befriends the pessimistic, rebellious Marie (Natacha Régnier). The two polar opposites become roommates and slowly develop a close friendship. But when Marie falls into a passionate affair with a handsome, arrogant young man (Grégoire Colin / Before the Rain), her all-consuming romance causes her friendship with Isa to suffer, with tragic consequences. Featuring outstanding performances (the two lead actresses were jointly awarded Best Actress at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival) writer/director Erick Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels is a striking debut, full of charm, vigor and humanity. (-DVD cover)

In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life's love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go? (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120449/plotsummary)

Isabelle, has a gentle, fun-loving, child-like nature, tomboyish and sentimental. Marie is cynical, uptight and wired. Her emotions swing wildly from deep pessimism to a tenuous hope for something better in this life. When she is seduced, rather forcefully, by the arrogant and predatory Chris (Grégoire Colin) who owns nightclubs and is accustomed to having his way with women, she is stunned to find that she wants him, needs him, loves him. But she knows (and is warned by Isabelle) that he is just using her and will dump her. She hates herself for loving him and therefore lashes out at Isabelle who is a witness to her humiliation. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120449/usercomments)

As a counterpoint to the raw animal love that Marie finds in Chris, there is the tender, dreamlike love that Isabelle finds for the daughter of the woman who owns the apartment. The mother dies from her injuries, but the daughter, Sandrine, lives on in a coma. Isabelle finds Sandrine's diary and reads it, and is touched by the sentiments expressed by the girl, and falls in love with her. A nurse tells Isabelle: "You can talk to her. She's sleeping, but she can hear you." Whether she can or not, we don't know, but to show her love Isabelle visits the comatose girl in the hospital and reads from her diary to her. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120449/usercomments)

In a sense we feel that the dream life of angels is the dream of Sandrine, who is dreaming the life of the young women who are living in her apartment. She is an angel and they are her dream, a troubled dream of raw emotion contrasted with her state of quiet somnolence. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120449/usercomments)

As a foil to the smooth, but bestial Chris, we are given Charlie (Patrick Mercado), fat motorcycle dude who is gentle and wise. This enlightened juxtaposition of character is part of director Erick Zonca's technique. We see it also in the contrasting characters of Marie and Isabelle. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120449/usercomments)

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