Les anges (1973) User Reviews

So exquisite, so disturbing

[searchanddestroy-1 · 14 November 2016]

I had never heard of this film before, a rare and unique French film which had never been released in VHS, DVD or even aired on TV channels. I would put it in the same category as LA TRAQUE or C'EST ARRIVE PRES DE CHEZ VOUS, although the topic is not the same. But the moral here is nowhere. I guess you find here a sort of corollary of the May 68 era, the revolutionary period, the social fight of the youth against adults. This film tells us the story of two young men in their early twenties who respect no one nor nothing and never hesitate to commit the most disgusting acts. For instance, at the beginning of the movie, they are aboard a car which they abandon in a street corner, in the middle of the street. Another car arrives at full speed, hit the stopped car and the driver of course dies in the collision. And guess what, our two "friends" laugh like hunchbacks and go quietly to a cafe just afterwards, having already forgotten the "incident"... So, now you have an idea. And that's only the beginning. You can think of Peter Collinson's PENTHOUSE, or Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES but these features were house invading ones, which this one is not. You have Louis Velle and Michel Bouquet in supporting characters.