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VHS : Marie Baie Des Anges (Marie From the Bay of Angels)
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Marie Baie Des Anges (Marie From the Bay of Angels) starring: Vahina Giocante, Frédéric Malgras, Nicolas Welbers, Amira Casar, Swan Carpio directed by: Manuel Pradal List Price: $21.96 Price: $8.00 You Save: $13.96 (64%)Prices subject to change. |
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767814911 Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0767814916 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: August 24, 1999 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: June 19, 1998 Sales Rank: 20513 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The title alone of this 1998 film by Manuel Pradal instantly conjures memories of Jacques Demy's 1963 Baie des Anges ("Bay of Angels"), a free-spirited ode to the loveliness of youth set against the sunny Riviera. Pradal's film also deals with young people in the same locale, but the tone is entirely different. Marie (Vahina Giocante), a 14-year-old girl, divides her time between hanging out with kids her own age--many of them homeless and all of them morally and emotionally adrift--and flirting with American sailors. In time she becomes friends with a rootless boy, Orso (Frederic Malgras), with whom she steals a boat and has a brief, blissful paradise on an island, chasing around and playing jokes until the story takes an unhappy turn. Pradal is as determinedly unromantic about this most romantic of settings as Demy was celebratory. It's not that Marie Baie des Anges is oblivious to its surroundings but rather that Pradal approaches them rather statically, presenting colorful scenes in fixed tableaux and giving us few of the usual bearings about what matters most within the story. The film can be a little maddening, a little redundant, yet the Lord of the Flies-like culture of beached children is too haunting to ignore. --Tom Keogh Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - SexyThis movie was so raw and dark. The character Marie is the only reason I like watching the movie. Like most French films, if you aren't French, they tend to be somewhat confusing and you don't always know what is happening. When I watched it I didn't find a lot of it too interesting, until the dance sequence. There is this scene where they are trying to steal a boat and Marie begins to dance to distract the fisherman. The scene blew me away it was perfect the sun was bright and shined onto the sea and the music was so passionate and Marie just oozed sex into the camera, it is by far one of the most erotic things I have seen, and is probably the only part of the movie I replayed so I could watch it again. It is a good movie for those one aren't ... Read More: Rating:  - Deserves creditThis film is getting two stars on cable television, which I think is too little. I have read some of the professional reviews and think that they are sometimes hung up on the wrong things as well. I watched the beginning again tonight and was well surprised. I especially like the European feel of the movie. It moves along and events unfold as they would realistically in this environment. This film has been compared to Francois Truffault's 400 Blows and that is a pretty mighty comparison. Young girls know they must have charm and be pretty; boys are tough. This is not new. It may be a stark view in a luxurious part of the world - the Mediterranean - but adult figures are scarce. What would also add to the starkness of the film though would ... Read More: Rating: - perfect summer filmthis was the centerpiece of my summer last year. it completely engulfed me; any and all comparisons to other films are forgotten.. it stands alone Rating: - Awful DirectionThe movie did not have a bad plot. It was probably rushed from the screenplay into the actual production. If you asked me, it could have been refined to be made into a great coming of age movie. Sorry to say the diretion was terrible. I liked the the flashbacks, but unfortuantely Manuel Pradal( the director) did a bad job in keeping up with the audience. All it is, is a bunch of scenes, with very little dialogue. That made it hard to know what was going on. When Marie(the girl in the story) meets Orso(the boy in the story) there is a need for more talking between the two to actually feel the love they share. In any case, the story is of a boy and girl who fell in love and went off to live in a nearby island. ... Read More: Rating: - Stark depiction of adolescent delinquencyReminiscent of Trauffaut's "The 400 Blows," "Marie Bais des Anges" depicts the harsh world of juvenile outcasts residing near France's SharkAngel Bay. The youths' hardened attitudes and desperate lives contast sharply with the beautiful scenery of the resort. "Marie..." centers around a free-spirited, 14 year-old prostitute and a hopeless, out-of-control thief, both impressively acted by Vahina Giocante and Frederic Malgras. The two exiles come together when everything else around their world falls apart. Their brief idyll as castaways brings to mind Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock;" behind the sunny facade of the getaway, tragedy lurks discreetly yet ominously. When the boy finally gets hold of a cherished revolver, the foreshadowed conclusion ... Read More: |
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