The Dreamlife of Angels

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The Dreamlife of Angels
Directed by Erick Zonca
Written by Erick Zonca
Starring Élodie Bouchez
Natacha Régnier
Release date(s) May, 1998
Running time 113 min.
Language French
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The Dreamlife of Angels (French: La Vie rêvée des anges) is a 1998 French drama film directed by Erick Zonca.

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[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The film is about two women, Isa and Marie, who live in a small French town near Lille. They both have been treated harsh by life, and both are living from day to day in short-time jobs like delivering leaflets in the streets. They live in an apartment that Marie is looking after, because the owners had a car accident in which everyone died, except for Sandrine, a teenager, who is in a coma. Isa and Marie meet up with two bouncers whom they befriend. The boys help them out and they have genuine fun together, although of course the boys aren't any better off than the girls.

Isa is the kind of girl who always lands on her two feet, while Marie finds it hard to express herself emotionally, and gets angry when she feels vulnerable. Marie cannot put up with the way she is tossed around by the world, and so she tries to escape through a local playboy, Chris, a rich guy, who owns a bar and a night club, and regularly goes out with girls. Isa is tougher in that she can take the beating and stick with what is around her, and does not get carried away by the false possibility of a better life.

Isa finds the diary of Sandrine, and decides to read it to her aloud in the hospital. Meanwhile, Chris breaks up with Marie, which she cannot take, and she jumps out of a window - on the other hand, Sandrine comes out of the coma. The film ends with Isa starting to work in a clean factory, where they probably won't treat her as bad as they have treated her in her previous jobs.

[edit] General meaning

The film is really about strength of personality, friendship and the world around us that we don't see, because we cannot picture ourselves in other people's shoes. The director, Eric Zonca, helps us see the world through the eyes of these two lonely young adults, who have no control over what is going to happen in their lives. Watching them it is clear that enormous strength is required to go though with it, and so it comes as no surprise that Marie eventually cannot take it.

The title refers to a note Isa writes to Marie, telling her that Sandrine went out of the coma and they will have to leave the apartment, wishing in good will that Marie gets to live the life she always dreamed of. Shortly after she sees Marie's body beneath the window.

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