Who is angel deverell

See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Charlotte Rampling Hermione as Hermione. Tom Georgeson Marvell as Marvell. Jemma Powell Angelica as Angelica.

Alison Pargeter Edwina as Edwina. Jo Perrin Publisher's secretary as Publisher's secretary. Ruth England Neighbour as Neighbour. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Angel Deverell comes of age in Edwardian Cheshire knowing she will be a great writer. Rising above her class her widowed mother has a grocery shop , Angel finds a publisher and a wide audience for her frothy romances. With royalties, she buys an estate, then she's smitten by Esme, a rake from local aristocracy and an artist of dark temperament.

She hires Esme's sister Nora, who dotes on her, as a personal assistant, and pursues Esme. Angel is grandly self-centered, coloring her world as if it were one of her novels. When the Great War breaks out and reality begins to trump her will, can Angel hold on to her man and her public? A dreary city tenement provides backdrop to this tale of exclusion and the magic it takes to become accepted.

Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia The story is inspired by the life of Marie Corelli. Quotes Angel Deverell : [from trailer] Everyone told me my dreams were lies.

Connections Referenced in The New Girlfriend User reviews 35 Review. Top review. It starts quite strangely for a movie about the life of a romantic novel writer in the early XX century Britain, with a wannabe Danny Elfman's music, an ugly pink opening, and an actress obviously too old for the part she plays.

But, as the movie goes on, if the strangeness still remains, all this elements begin to make sense and create and original, and I think, never experimented on screen, world. ANGEL is indeed a really good surprise if you manage to accept and enter the inner world that the movie describes, and the kitsch atmosphere of Ozon's style witch was for me unbearable in his previous movies, like "8 Femmes", but that absolutely fits the subject of this movie.

The originality of this movie is that everything is seen with Angel's eyes. And her eyes only see what her imagination tells them to see, for she doesn't live in reality, but always fills it with dreams, so that she can live as if she were one of her romantic heroine.

I suspect, moreover, that he is impersonating not Sirk, but Todd Haynes's homage to Sirk in his Far from Heaven, which worked because it was passionate and heartfelt. I have written elsewhere about how the Ealing studio, in its heyday, might have made a brilliant version of the book - not dissimilar from, say, Kind Hearts and Coronets, whose hero rather resembles Angel.

Ozon has certainly engaged with the text in other ways: it is very strange that Angel's husband and her companion-cum-amanuensis are brother and sister, and Ozon is right to want to amplify and clarify how dysfunctional and plain weird that is. But his insistence on a bisexual dimension is unsubtle. And he insists on tying up a plot strand that Taylor had deliberately left untied.

Garai's performance isn't bad, if shrill - although Ozon's direction doesn't give her much of a chance to get under the character's skin - but like everyone else's it is marooned in the fundamental wrongness of Ozon's approach. Opportunities don't get more lost than this. Cert A spoof too far Ozon's Angel. Topics Drama films reviews.