The characterization is barebone but well balanced with the film's theme of superficial wealth and Michel Legrand's score is almost a miracle considering its extreme simplicity, but La baie des anges remains a very typic French New Wave film, Jacques Demy didn't have the audacity that he will have only 1 year later for Les parapluies de Cherbourg or for Les demoiselles de Rochefort 3 years later.
Review of Bay of Angels
