Slideshow
PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
Rebecca Miller’s
ANGELA
Wednesday, September 17
7:50
U.S., 1995
Written and directed by Rebecca Miller
Starring Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, John Ventimiglia, Vincent Gallo
Approx. 99 min.
“Rebecca Miller’s spellbinding debut feature is a searing portrait of a ten-year-old girl (Miranda Rhyne) who—as her mentally ill mother’s sanity deteriorates—retreats into a disturbing imaginative universe of angels, demons, and spiritual rituals that she hopes will save her disintegrating family. Evoking the unsettled consciousness of its young heroine through strikingly poetic, magical-realist images, ANGELA conjures a hallucinatory world in which reality mingles with dark fantasy until the two are virtually indistinguishable.” – Criterion