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The Face Of An Angel
Based on a true story, this movie follows the struggles of a journalist and a filmmaker in covering the murder case of Meredith in 2007 on the hands of an American student in Italy.
30 September 1970, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
16 July 1975, Livorno, Italy
1978, County Tipperary, Ireland
1975, England, UK
29 November 1945, Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
26 July 1973, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
December 23, 1944 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy
30 November 1951, Modica, Ragusa, Italy
2 October 1968, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
July 01, 2015
... drains most of the suspense by downplaying the whodunit aspect of the case in favor of a heavy-handed procedural about media ethics.
June 25, 2015
built on the intriguing idea of using a thinly fictionalized version of the notorious Amanda Knox trial to explore how real-life events are transformed into art, but the resulting film gets muddy and misguided very quickly
June 19, 2015
Rambling, frustrating and wholly uninvolving, "The Face of an Angel" swarms with ideas that have no place to land.
June 19, 2015
this one -- inspired by the real-life 2007 Amanda Knox/Meredith Kercher case -- seems content to wander off into meta-ness, even if it never arrives anywhere.
December 12, 2015
A sprawling, often provocative exploration of the ethics and competing interests involved in the coverage of a case like Elizabeth's murder.
June 22, 2015
...the film is contrived, confusing, and, despite dense plotting, severely lacking in emotional or thematic depth.
June 20, 2015
The film does occasionally show a pulse when it tries to re-imagine the life of the victim - when it turns the tables on the mystery and tries to become a film about love and life, instead of doom and death. But it's too little, too late, and too lame.
June 25, 2015
The Face of an Angel takes too many detours and breaches its viewers' trust too many times to be taken seriously.
June 18, 2015
Like the floundering filmmaker at its center, "The Face of an Angel" never seems sure of what story it wants to tell.
June 19, 2015
To get at the heart of what's wrong with "The Face of an Angel" all you need to do is consider the professional stones it takes to adapt the Amanda Knox case into yet another movie about the existential/amorous crises of a white male filmmaker.
August 14, 2015
Occasionally Winterbottom delivers a haunting, effective moment, giving a hint of a different, more compelling film. But then it's back to the self-righteous, self-indulgent, muddled metaphors.
June 19, 2015
There's a great deal of intelligent material here. Winterbottom mounts a harsh attack on our fascination with killers and our tendency to forget the victim. Yet it's overlaid with so much navel-gazing, it's hard to take.