I love this movie! Daniel Auteuil is so very good at comedy, and in this movie his co-star is equally brilliant and everyone else acts up to the fun script. It's not just a great laugh but often very poignant as plain, frustrated Leah, dominated by her objectionable, flashy mother, ends up captivating one of the Devil's minor demons, Abargadon.
Spoilers...........
This is a great concept, demons tricking unpleasant humans into signing away their lives to the Devil and Hellfire in return for a few opportunities to do whatever they choose. Well, you can guess that the demons trick the humans. The twists are what make this a superior movie - Leah's plucky determination and the growing affection between herself and the demon in spite of his instinctive urge to cheat everyone including her, and there an hilarious but totally inoffensive slant on St Michael.
Auteuil is a sexy and exciting saturnine anti-hero, and then suddenly he is made human and becomes a pretty useless, frightened slob Leah has to mother. Nothing like suddenly discovering you can't do precisely everything you like! But you still can't help adoring dodgy Abargadon and being pleased when at the end both he and Leah win out in a twist which I certainly didn't anticipate but it's very, very good! There's also a comical little Easter Egg.
Spoilers...........
This is a great concept, demons tricking unpleasant humans into signing away their lives to the Devil and Hellfire in return for a few opportunities to do whatever they choose. Well, you can guess that the demons trick the humans. The twists are what make this a superior movie - Leah's plucky determination and the growing affection between herself and the demon in spite of his instinctive urge to cheat everyone including her, and there an hilarious but totally inoffensive slant on St Michael.
Auteuil is a sexy and exciting saturnine anti-hero, and then suddenly he is made human and becomes a pretty useless, frightened slob Leah has to mother. Nothing like suddenly discovering you can't do precisely everything you like! But you still can't help adoring dodgy Abargadon and being pleased when at the end both he and Leah win out in a twist which I certainly didn't anticipate but it's very, very good! There's also a comical little Easter Egg.