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Angelica is a 2015 American horror thriller film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. The film is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Arthur Phillips. The film stars Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, and Tovah Feldshuh. [1]
A couple living in Victorian London endures an unusual series of psychological and supernatural happenings following the birth of their child. In Victorian England, sexual repression opens a rift between young couple Constance and Joseph after the birth of their daughter Angelica.
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Set in Victorian London, Jena Malone (The Neon Demon) plays Constance, a virginal shop girl swept off her feet by Ed Stoppard’s Doctor Joseph Barton, a well-heeled research scientist with grand plans to cure all disease. When Constance almost dies in child birth, doctors advise her to cease penetrative sex with Joseph, as it could further damage he...
To Constance, sex has seemingly become something sinful and dangerous, for which she will be punished. This is underlined in a scene when Joseph presses her into giving him, ahem, “oral relief”. But the act is interrupted when young Angelica starts coughing and spluttering, as if choking, in her bedroom next door. Constance is briefly convinced she...
Angelica’s themes and ideas wouldn’t come across nearly so powerfully if Lichtenstein’s film didn’t fire on all cylinders elsewhere, too. Despite what I suspect is a small budget, Angelica is a sumptuously-appointed piece of work, for which we can thank Mike Leigh’s regular director of photography Dick Pope, and Rita Ryack’s elegant costuming. It h...
This is a real return to form for Lichtenstein after the powerfully cast (Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn and Ellen Barkin) but ultimately rather disappointing Happy Tears. Angelicais a slow burn but rewards patience as the director takes his time to lay out his themes, introduce his characters and slowly ratchet up the melodrama. It doesn’t ent...
Feb 12, 2015 · Berlin Film Review: ‘Angelica’. Strange things — including a giant ectoplasmic phallus — go bump in the night in Mitchell Lichtenstein's psychosexual Victorian chiller. By Scott Foundas ...
Victorian England - Newlyweds Malone and Stoppard have a daughter, Angelica, and soon afterwards supernatural events have a significant impact on the mother. Despite a compelling performance from Malone and a an atmosphere capturing both Victorian society and the spookiness quite nicely, in the end this is actually rather tedious.
In the Victorian era, a young wife and her husband go through a difficult time in their marriage after the birth of their child, which is heightened by a mysterious ghost that enters their house ...
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Nov 17, 2017 · An unusual and often hauntingly strange film, Angelica is given life thanks to Jena Malone’s impressive performance, which juggles mounting hysteria with a gentle sense of passion.
