{"id":1375,"date":"2006-06-24T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/angel-a.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:20:58","slug":"angel-a-%e2%80%93-luc-besson-and-his-breathtaking-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"<em>Angel-A<\/em> \u2013 Luc Besson and his breathtaking women."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\" title=\"IMDb entry for my alien being\">Milla Jovovich<\/a> was wonderful in <em>The Fifth Element<\/em>, Natalie Portman was strangely enchanting \u2013 and young \u2013 in <em>L\u00e9on \u2013 The Professional<\/em> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1051346\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for this incredibly tall and straightforward actress\">Rie Rasmussen<\/a> makes me marvel at the other gender. As always, <a href=\"\" title=\"IMDb entry for one of my favorite directors\">Luc Besson<\/a> shows what many men dream of (at least sometimes, I would guess): a woman that is more attractive than they would ever imagine to be in their company but also a woman that is open, accessible, and full of trust in <del>you<\/del> a male actor with which you can identify. Or at least with whom you dearly want to identify, since he is so intimate with such an otherworldly being. This is what makes this movie a special experience to me.<br \/>\nIn addition, I enjoyed the leading male role in <em>Angel-A<\/em>. Rie Rasmussen&#8217;s beauty (which is more than just looks) and Jamel Debbouze&#8217;s deer-like eyes work together perfectly. Nonetheless, the script is not exactly perfect. The main characters sometimes talk too much, taking the depth out of the pictures. In addition, some of the turns in the story are a bit too obvious for my taste.<br \/>\nHowever, the images were beautiful and evocative and I liked the way in which Luc Besson paid homage to Wim Wenders&#8217; <em lang=\"de\">Himmel \u00fcber Berlin<\/em> \u2013 a movie that also offers beautifel yet remote images of a city, telling the story of a painful bridging of the distance between living, experiencing, and dying mortals and remote, superhuman angels. I enjoyed the movie, its pictures, and its characters very much. However, you should be aware and not build you hopes too high, particularly if you&#8217;re not that much into Luc Besson and his emphasis on strange aesthetics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0473753\/\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angela-lefilm.com\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Official Movie Site with Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milla Jovovich was wonderful in The Fifth Element, Natalie Portman was strangely enchanting \u2013 and young \u2013 in L\u00e9on \u2013 The Professional and now Rie Rasmussen makes me marvel at the other gender. As always, Luc Besson shows what many men dream of (at least sometimes, I would guess): a woman that is more attractive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-luc-besson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}