Ralph's Movie Reviews: MY DAUGHTER MY ANGEL

Saturday, February 24, 2007

MY DAUGHTER MY ANGEL

Drama
In French with English sub-titles

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Michel Côté: Germain Dagenais, a political advisor
Karine Vanasse: his 18-year old daughter Nathalie
Dominique Leduc: her mother Jeanne
Laurence Leboeuf: Natalie’s best friend Angélique
Christian Bégin: Detective Michel Desrennes

REVIEW
Parents have a difficult time, even well-to-do ones who can afford to send their children to law school. We get to see how one family deals with some major issues and the impact these have on their relationships.

Excellent acting by Nathalie and her father, coupled with solid camerawork makes this a very compelling film.

CLASSIFICATION

for scenes of nudity, sexual content and brief explicit sex.

FOR NITPICKERS ONLY
During a discussion with her father, a strand of hair gets caught in Natalie’s mouth. The scene changes to focus on her father and then back to her. Her hair is nicely combed and nothing is amiss. The change of viewpoint repeats once more but now the strand of hair is back in her mouth.

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my ratings system

I've always thought that telling too much about a movie or warning someone about a "twist" at the end deprives the person the pleasure of seeing it as it unfolds, so I don’t do it. You may not always agree with my rating of course, but at least it is an unbiased opinion unlike some of the full time professional reviewers who are on the studio’s payroll.

A few movies you won’t see any review from me:

Scary movies: I’m the world’s biggest chicken and just hate getting the crap scared out of me. I can handle an unexpected door slam, that kind of thing, but a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat…not for me. Sorry.
Movies geared to the young teen and pre-teen crowd with dialog comprising mostly of crude remarks, awful jokes and lots of rude, socially unacceptable body noises. "The Spy that Shagged Me" comes to mind. (I wonder if the kids know what the British verb to shag someone really means? They probably do; I bet you it’s the parents who haven’t a clue).
Sometimes Hollywood gets on a roll and they produce a series of movies that are all very much alike. For example movies about the CIA were very popular and so we had The Bourne Identity and Bad Company and The Sum of All Fears. They all had the same basic theme and it becomes repetitive. I will see some, but not all of them.

FYI this is my rating system:

0 stars = Terrible: so bad it’s not worth talking about; in fact, I’d pay you not to go
= Lousy: I actually got up and walked out before the end it was just that bad (no kidding)
= Not so good: thought about walking out but hung in just in case it got better (but it didn’t)
= A so-so good movie: I enjoyed it somewhat but wasn’t all that crazy about it
= A really good movie: I recommend seeing it
= An excellent movie you just got to see! I suggest you put it on your "To Do List" it’s that good.

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has more movie mistakes than you could ever imagine. My contributions can be seen if you check out the Nitpickers Registry and click on the link Nitpickers Listed by Nitpicker Number, select the group 45,401 - 45,500 and drill down to number 45411. Although I have 56 nitpicks to my credit, some have almost 2,000. You wonder sometimes where they find the time to do it.