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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
Sales Rank: 20458
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 19, 1998
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Sexy
This 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Deserves credit
This 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 ... Read More
Rating: - perfect summer film
this 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 Direction
The 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Stark depiction of adolescent delinquency
Reminiscent 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 ... Read More
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