Angela DVD – Full Screen

I bought this used and was pleased with the quick delivery from the seller."Angela" is a slower paced movie. If a slower pace is annoying to you, this is one to skip. I was fully engrossed in the story of a young girl trying to make some sense out of a difficult life with a mother physically present, but essentially absent due to mental issues. The performances are impressive.Unfortunately, there are some problems with the DVD. I initially saw this film on a streaming service and it looked good. The DVD version wasn't masked properly. The top and bottom of the screen should have been blocked off. This means you see boom mics galore. Also, the closed captions are highly inaccurate.I have read reviews of people confused by the ending. The DVD has a director's commentary and Rebecca Miller explains the movie thoroughly.

I watched this film a few years ago and have never forgotten it. In it, we have two pre-teen sisters who are trying to deal with the mental state of their mother, which is getting worse and worse with each passing day. Their father is an endearing man, although a bit permissive, and does his best to hold the rocky family together.The film takes a strange turn into what many conclude is our protagonist's (a girl named Angela) own slide into mental illness. I'm not sure that's the case, as I find reason to believe some aspects of her visions might have very well been true, but the point is that she's a tormented soul and finds escapism through a vivid imagination and a self-made quest that frees her mind from what's currently happening. This is a quest for purification from the evil of the world, one that she brings her sister along for the ride, and one that finds a handsome, peaceful Lucifer as their largest obstacle. He simply states to her on numerous times, "I want you, Angela" in a very gentle, yet thouroughly dark way.Eventually, Angela's quest, with her young sister at her side, takes her across the back roads of her town. Her firm belief in her journey makes her the near victim of a crime as well as the viewer of some very bizarre happenings. In the end, Angela decides to face her fears directly.The end of this film will leave you in awe.

This is a provocative and rare example of when American goth art combines with American cinematic genius. Fans of David Hamilton may especially apperciate the artistic visuals of the young star, Angela, and her younger sister.This film requires an open mind and one who apperciates all colors of art from darkness to light.It brings you through the very real private journeys and experences of a young girl becoming a young woman. As with most girls at the character's age, Angela becomes isolated from her family and friends in order to find the answers to her inner questions on her own.Many of the scenes are somber and distubring but beautiful.The plot, in short, is about a eleven or twelve year old girl named Angela living with her sister and Mother in rural America. Throughout the film, she is engrossed in her own journey to discover how she might gurantee her place in Heaven someday. The more she searches the more obsessed this quest becomes. She soon finds herself in a world of angels and demons fighting for her soul.Meanwhile, her Mothers becomes mentally ill. This too becomes a part of Angela's quest for understanding and finding her salvation. All the while, her young sister, five or so, stays timidly at her side, quietly attempting to make sense of her family's challenges and sister's fasination with another world.The film invites you into the dark place that exists in every young woman's search for idenity and place.

Released in '95 `Angela' plays like a lazy, dreamy summer's day lying around the house watching the curtains sway in the gentle breeze and scattered rays of sunlight dance around the room. You know what I mean, one of those days when dreams and fantasies weave their way into the waking world making every moment magical and filled with possibility.Angela lives in such a world of her own making as she desperately attempts to escape the reality of living with a chronically depressed Mother and a family dissolving before her adolescent eyes. Seeing no other avenues to consider she looks for a way to solve her problems through a divine intervention.In her intensely hypnogogic world nothing is what it seems to be. Lucifer lives in the basement of the family house, the Virgin Mary lurks outside the bedroom window and the elderly woman next door who walks constantly back and forth to her mail box looking for a letter that never comes is an angel.This is a film filled with southern, backwoods atmosphere and understated meaning that does a superb job at blurring the boundary lines between, the real and the imagined, the sacred and the mudane. Definitely not for everyone but if you occasionally enjoy a little something off the beaten path you might want to give `Angela' a try. It's something that will either win you over or put you to sleep.My Rating: -3 1/2 Stars-.

This is a terrible movie. Most of it was boring. But there are two things you may come out of it with. Watch your kids !! Put them first!! And what Angela says to the man at the carnival up on the balcony might be a good idea should a child get in a similar position unexpectedly. Otherwise, this movie is not worth the money or time it took for me to force myself to finish watching it. Very poorly filmed also. Keeping the yellow and all the black microphones out of the way of being filmed would be a good idea too. Extremely low budget doesn't have to mean sloppy filming.

Another diamond in the rough. If you liked 'hounddog', you will probably enjoy this one too, a lot. Watch it.

Hat mich schon länger interessiert der Film, aufgrund der Beschreibung. Also das Lied das die kleine Schwester von Angela gleich am Anfang des Films singt ist wirklich toll. Die Handlungen im Film muss man manchmal schon selber deuten und das ist nicht so einfach, da erscheinen Figuren die anscheinend nur in der Phantasie von Angela oder ihrer Schwester existieren, aber auch reale Menschen die von Angela als die erkannt werden auf die sie schon lange gewartet hat und von denen sie weiß was sie wollen. Das treibt einen jungen Mann sofort zur Flucht der gerade vor hatte, Angela zu küssen. Traurig empfinde ich die Szene, als Angela nicht mehr aus dem Wasser auftaucht und die arme kleine Schwester vergebens nach ihr ruft. Was ein Auto in einem Baum verloren hat? Film ansehen um es zu erfahren.Ich muss mir den Film nochmals mit der anderen Tonspur anschauen, dort sind Kommentare der Regisseurin mit drauf. Schade dass es nicht auch eine deutsche Tonspur gibt. Auch ist mir aufgefallen dass in einigen Szenen das Mikro mitsamt Angel zu sehen ist, hat da der Cutter bzw. Kameramann gepennt? Oder hat man es doch gemerkt und konnte die Szenen nicht mehr nachdrehen? Dann hätte man aber doch das Mikro rausretuschieren können, also das macht schon einen unprofessionellen Eindruck für den ansonst sehr guten und außergewöhnlichen Film, sehr gut gespielt von den beiden Hauptdarstellerinnen.

Angela is a coming of age film that tells the story of two sisters trapped in a deteriorating family life with a manic-depressive mother and distant father. The older sister (who has visions of the devil) leads them both into various 'practices' such as covering themselves in mud in the river, in an attempt rid themselves of sin and evil.The film is actually a lot better than I expected it would be. It's one of those compelling movies that seems to grip you until the very end. Mainly because the acting from the child actors, Miranda Stuart Ryne (Angela) and Charlotte Eve Blythe (Ellie) is nothing less than brilliant. Their innocence and nievety has been perfectly captured, portraying their emotions and thoughts. The way that the children conjure up their own world is haunting but again rather gripping. I like the idea that a child's imagination can be a dangerous thing. Even the acting from other cast members is pretty good. Angela is a good, honest film that doesn't try to hide away or glamorise life and childhood.(For once) I can't think of anything negative to say about the film. While at the same time its hard to describe what makes Angela such a good movie. It's not what I would call enjoyable as such, more disturbing than anything else. There is a lot of hidden depth and meaning in Anglea. But in all honestly I would say that this is definitely a film that you have to watch (rather than read about) to understand and appreciate.

Schöner Film leider nicht in deutsch.

un peut chère pour un dvd sans commentaires des acteurs de ce film et les scenes qui ne son pas retenues