Behind-the-scenes production of love-seeking paradise

The Romantic Life of a British Woman Writer

The admirers of Fran? ois Oron and all kinds of fans can't miss watching this "Angel" on the big screen of the cinema. Ou Rong continued to form alliances with literary works, melodramas and comedies in his film Angel, which became the closing film of the 57th Berlin Film Festival. Angel is also the first English-language work of the French director, which is adapted from Elizabeth Taylor's novel of the same name in 1957. The original work describes the ups and downs of a poor but full-featured British woman writer in the early 2th century.

Elizabeth Taylor's 1957 novel was inspired by Corilli, a British woman writer who wrote 28 romantic novels with touching plots and was very popular with readers. Taylor drew atypical materials from all her works, and actually satirized the excessive enthusiasm for melodrama at that time. The film was clear before the appearance of the core character Angel Deverell, which moved the writer's genius to the screen, but deprived of any irony, leaving only wisdom. The end of the film becomes a bit empty and flashy, while literary works (and character prototypes) should be satirized at this time. Moreover, the dialogue between the characters in the film sounds like an English translation of a French film, and the performance is full of curiosity from beginning to end despite its strong cast. In fact, this same dialogue problem also exists in the last film "Swimming Pool (23) by Francois Ourong, but it is not so obvious. The way of speaking of the characters is almost simplified, and the style of reading aloud is like an English stage play, with the leading role of romola garai, a promising leading role. As for the gorgeous and dazzling costumes, the 134-minute film runs through the whole life of a talented writer. The whole film is neither a mechanical imitation of Fran? ois Ou Rong's last film "Eight Beautiful Pictures" 8 femmes (22), nor a playful bridge and sense of humor; Nor is it like his literary psychological film Sous le sable (2), which is deep, graceful and delicate.

French director Ou Rong's dilemma

Just like Almodovar's Bad Education La Mala educación (24), Angel can be said to reflect the director's dilemma, combining the pure melodrama style of the movie 8 femmes with strong camp flavor, and continuing to explore the alternation between real life and fantasy fields, which also. The adaptation of the film may disappoint the audience who had expected to understand the complete work by watching the film. It is like an excellent original English novel being published in a newspaper by stages. Like Eight Beautiful Pictures, the whole movie is divided into several paragraphs. Although knowing all about Ou Rong's previous works may be helpful to watch this film, it is still hard to say what kind of audience will accept Angel.

One of Ou Rong's previous films was Temps qui reste, Le (25), which was as short and concise as Angel. How should a terminally ill young man face his own death? He finally decided not to tell anyone about himself except his old grandmother. In Angel, the opposite of him is a successful young novelist: she wouldn't imagine not telling others about herself. Her job is to create love stories, and her real life, like fairy tales, is constantly rewritten for the publishing house, her friends and even herself. Every romantic love experience will make people get a lot, that is, when this person realizes that it is just another twist and test, it will eventually be a happy ending.

A tribute to Hollywood style in the 195s

The film was shot in Britain and Belgium. Fashion designer Pascaline Chavanne and art director Katia Wyszkop worked with a lot of costumes and antiques all day to create the English style of Edwardian VII, which was also achieved with the full cooperation of photographer Denis Lenoir. Philippe Rombi, the music creator, accompanied the whole film with a full symphony, which was also intended to show the Hollywood film style of the 195s, but it made the film seem strangely empty. Just like "Eight Beautiful Pictures", the background music of the film has a agatha christie-style murder suspense flavor. "Angel" started in the outdoor snow scene, and every scene was carefully designed, including clothing, music and photography. When shooting started in front of the background of the film, all the elements formed a complete synthetic art work in a European way.

"Eight Beautiful Pictures" and "Angel", both of which are obviously paying tribute to Technicolor Film Company, especially to the iconic melodrama style founded by Hollywood douglas sirk in the 195s, and raising affectation to the height of fun. Combined with another lively film, Moulin Rouge, a work of art by baz luhrmann! The similarity of (21) is that this film only uses a small part of the plot of the novel, which is used as the motive of creation to make a fuss, to find out the emotional color that is commensurate with it and is to be over-exaggerated, and to care more about emotional truth than historical accuracy. Because of this, many costumes in Angels, on the one hand, are beautifully designed, and look like girls from The Adventures of Priscilla (1994), who are always ready to attend a fashion show in well-designed costumes.