Angel
Wunderkind François Ozon here turns his considerable talents to adapting a novel written in the fifties by the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor.
The book tells the story of a grocer’s daughter who dreams of becoming a famous writer and inhabiting the gorgeous country mansion that she often walks past but cannot enter.
The precocious Angel (played by Romola Garai, who also appears in this year’s Atonement) pours all her fanciful romantic longings into flowery prose that eventually attracts the attention of a well-heeled London publisher (Sam Neill); fame soon follows, washing over her like a tidal wave. (Toronto International Film Festival)
Starring: Romola Garai, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling
Angel is released 29th August