The Dreamlife of Angels
Synopsis
Isa, 20, owns nothing but the contents of her backpack and a generally cheerful, “grin and bear it” attitude to life. Bumming her way from town to town, living from hand to mouth, she washes up in Lille. Everywhere she goes, she adds a new block to the structure she is building, patiently and instinctively, out of her curiosity and generosity. In Lille she meets Marie, a girl from the north of France, aged 20 like her and a loner like her, but for different reasons. Marie is untamed, scalded, outraged by the role that life has ascribed to her.
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Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Productions Bagheera
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Diaphana
- Film exports/foreign sales : Wide
- French distribution : Diaphana
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : François Marquis
- Assistant directors : Hubert Barbin, Alexandre Billon
- Adaptation : Pierre Schoeller, Frédéric Carpentier
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Luc Audy
- Screenwriters : Érick Zonca, Roger Bohbot, Virginie Wagon, Pierre Chosson
- Director of photography : Agnès Godard
- Sound Assistant : Olivier Busson
- Assistant Operators : Luc Pallet, Raphaël Bauche
- Camera operator : Dominique Le Rigoleur
- Production Manager : François Lamotte
- Press Attaché (film) : Robert Schlockoff
- Editor : Yannick Kergoat
- Sound editor : Muriel Moreau
- Assistant editors : Sophie Henocq, Laure Meynet
- Continuity supervisor : Maureen Meyer
- Production Designer : Jimmy Vansteenkiste
- Music Composers : Virginie Wagon, Yann Tiersen
- Casting : Antoine Carrard
- Costume designer : Françoise Clavel
- Sound Mixer : Stéphane Thiébaut
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Wandering, Youth
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 16/09/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 53 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 87.765
- Visa issue date : 24/06/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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News & awards
Selections (18)
Moscow - International Film Festival
Russia, 1999
Panorama
Awards (4)
Cannes International Film Festival
France, 1998
Award for Best actress : Élodie Bouchez
Award for Best actress : Natacha Régnier
Delegations (4)
About
Zonca films bare-knuckled with a boxer’s tension, freedom and rigor, never once trying to demonstrate. Like Pialat in “Passe ton bac d’abord”, he lets himself be guided by the trembling of bodies, the debris of illusions, the dropped beats in looks and conversations. From an environment (Northern France) much overused in French cinema, the hackneyed context (social mincemeat) that goes with it and the play of stubborn opposites (night, day, the characters), the director extracts the harsh light of trajectories that collide. He captures the unraveling of these girls and their impossible dream of tying up with others. Lets his camera run. Dares to make a bridging sequence in mid-film and then, without warning, switches from Isa’s occasionally clownish energy (love that Madonna act!) to Marie’s mutinous rancor. And ends his film with as many lives. A long, long take of women factory workers’ faces which, in the image of his two angels, turn our hearts inside out. (Sophie Grassin in “L’Express” magazine, September 10, 1998)
