If films were permitted by law to be at most one hour long, this would be a beautiful and poignant glimpse of gay love in the early 90s. However, due to an unfortunate oversight Sorry Angel was allowed to carry on for two hours and twelve minutes. As a result I went from thinking "this is exquisite" to being unable to sit still because I was so bored.
Jacques is a Parisian writer who meets a pretentious and bookish young man in Rennes, a city in Britanny. Neither suspends their other sexual activities, but they haunt each other's thoughts and I found the tension of how the relationship would unfold to be compelling and engaging. The trouble is that the film just keeps going and the story is progressively weaker, so as the film goes on it's harder to care. Although geography is important to the plot, it's hard to tell if any scene is taking place in Paris or Rennes (or Amsterdam?). Additional characters appear and disappear, or die, or don't. There are stylistic flourishes that distract from the story and the dialogue is so stilted as to be comical at times.
Who knows what this film could be if it had been edited to a hundred minutes at most? The extra 42 minutes felt like torture to me.
Jacques is a Parisian writer who meets a pretentious and bookish young man in Rennes, a city in Britanny. Neither suspends their other sexual activities, but they haunt each other's thoughts and I found the tension of how the relationship would unfold to be compelling and engaging. The trouble is that the film just keeps going and the story is progressively weaker, so as the film goes on it's harder to care. Although geography is important to the plot, it's hard to tell if any scene is taking place in Paris or Rennes (or Amsterdam?). Additional characters appear and disappear, or die, or don't. There are stylistic flourishes that distract from the story and the dialogue is so stilted as to be comical at times.
Who knows what this film could be if it had been edited to a hundred minutes at most? The extra 42 minutes felt like torture to me.