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| Angelo premieres at Toronto Film Festival |
Toronto Film Festival is just around the corner, so we're period set and international today, people, starting with the first photos from German and French language historical drama
ANGELO set in early 18th century when an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman. Being close to the emperor he decides to marry Magdalena, a young maidservant, with whom he falls in love. Doing so, Angelo inevitably suffers from the rejection from the
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| Five different actors play Angelo throughout the movie! |
court. On the height of his prestige, he has to realize, that his otherness will never be erased. He will never know a normal life, and he will always remain
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| Alba Rohrwacher plays the Comtesse |
an outsider. Based on true events, Angelo is the story of an African who is Europeanised by force. At the beginning of the 18th century, as a child, he is
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| Angelo is a coproduction between Austria and Luxembourg |
taken from his homeland and, after being sold, given the eponymous name through the sacrament of baptism. The film is inspired by the few surviving records of the life of the Viennese court moor Angelo Soliman.
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| The movie hits French cinemas September 12th |
This one will open next week at Toronto Film Festival before it hits cinemas in France.
MADEMOI SELLE DE JONCQ UIERES sees
Cecile de France playing madam of the Pommeraye, a young widow removed from the world, who assigns to the court of the marquis of Arcis (
Edouard Baer) who is notoriously licentious . After a few years of a happiness without flaw, she discovers that the Marquis is tired of their union. Madly in Love and terribly injured, she decides to take revenge on him with the help of Mademoiselle of Joncquières
(Alice Isaaz) and her mother.
