La Vie Rêvée Des Anges

English Title:	The Dreamlife Of Angels
Year:	1998
Country:	France
Language:	French
Genre:	Drama
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	2 Have Seen


Director	Erick Zonca
Selected Cast	Élodie Bouchez as Isabelle 'Isa' Tostin
	Natacha Régnier as Marie Thomas
	Grégoire Colin as Chriss
	Patrick Mercado as Charly

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Magic Marmalade 22nd Jul 2023		After much hunting, just discovered this beautiful song over the end credits is this:



Magic Marmalade 19th Jul 2023		Rated 8/10 An expectation of life. Having not seen this, more or less, since the year of it's release, my memory was more than a little hazy of it, I just remember being engrossed in it... (And if I'm honest, more than a little taken with the elfin pixie girl Elodie Bouchez, which may have caused my still young brain to block out most of the other substance of the movie :) ((Got tired of waiting for this to turn up in a charity shop or boot fair, so bought a used DVD copy from amazon for a couple of quid - the extravagance! :)) ...It's a fairly straight up character study of two girls, on perhaps the lowest rungs of the social / economic ladder who meet, become friends, and then move in together, in an apartment owned by A mother and daughter who are both in a coma, after a car crash... So they are basically house-sitting / squatting, here, while aimlessly drifting through life, from job to job... and so forth. However, although it seems, from the outset, that Marie is the more "put-together" of the two, with Isa being a little bit more flaky, and "loose leaf", as the story goes, it becomes apparent that Isa is more able to accept the circumstances in which they find themselves, and is the more adaptable, as Marie, it seems, has more aspirational ideas of what her life should be, when she hooks up with a young, rich asshole of a guy, in whom she sees the opportunity, for that "dream-life" of hers to become a reality (more so, than any particular fancy for him, as a person). ...Needless to say, she becomes a tad obsessive about him, as all her hopes are invested in him, to the extent that she is willing to overlook almost every horrible thing about him, and how he treats her, and this, in turn, causes great friction in the once fun relationship she has with Isa... This, you feel, may end in tears. Meanwhile, Isa seems to be getting along fairly nicely, circumstances notwithstanding, and having paid a visit to the hospital, to see the young girl in the coma, to sit with her, she discovers her diary, and it can almost be said she begins to develop some kind of bond or relationship with the girl she has never met in the waking world. So it seems, on re-watching, and reflection to be about the expectations we have of life, what it should be, and what you are prepared to accept in it's stead - how adaptable you are in your mindset. But my residual impressions still hold true... (Now unblinkered by the absence of youthful hormones smashing through my tiny younger head!) ...A thoroughly engrossing, sad but intimate tale of two young girls, who each dream of other things in life, just not necessarily the same things, or in the same way. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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