Sorry Angel
Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 15, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
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Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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17
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4
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0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMar 11, 2019
An exquisite tale about coming of age and coming to terms. Read full review
90
The New York TimesGlenn KennyFeb 12, 2019
It took a while for this digressive movie to get its hooks in me, but once it did, Sorry Angel didn’t let go. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMay 19, 2018
While it has visual energy to spare, the movie is more relaxed and less flamboyantly playful than most of Honore’s other films, unfolding with naturalistic grace — precise but unfussy framing, fluid camera movements — and fewer New Wave-y winks and nods. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMay 19, 2018
What's bracing about Sorry Angel is that it refuses to allow the specificity of its characters — specifically drawn and superbly played — to be obscured or flattened by the drama of terminal illness. Neither man is made nicer or more palatable than he has to be. Read full review
90
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 19, 2018
A chewy, handsomely staged novel of a movie, Sorry Angel (whose much better French title translates to Pleasure, Love, and Run Fast) contains moments of piercing intelligence and heartbreaking beauty. It’s an epic diptych look at two lives converging, one in many ways just beginning, the other faltering to a close. I was absolutely in love with it—until the very end. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiFeb 16, 2019
Both sprawling and intimate, it tells a story dealing with life, love, friendship, mortality and, yes, AIDS, in a manner that is relentlessly and deliberately unsentimental in tone but which nevertheless proves to be quite affecting. Read full review
85
TheWrapBen CrollMay 19, 2018
Honoré’s deliberately paced, willfully unsentimental character study is like the yin to the yang of last year’s Cannes Grand Prize winner, “BPM.” Whereas Robin Campillo’s ACT-UP drama argued that the personal was political, and did so with lightning-bolt urgency, Honoré’s film is a more subdued rumination on community and connection. Read full review
83
The PlaylistKimber MyersFeb 14, 2019
There are moments of joy and humor throughout, and the film insists on feeling those emotions, just as much as it does grief. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaFeb 12, 2019
Sorry Angel doesn’t always make you feel the weight of its presence—but as any good romance should, it makes you feel the sting of its absence. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 19, 2018
For years, “gay movies” were practically a genre unto themselves, neatly conforming to one of three categories: stories about coming out, stories about unrequited love, and stories about the impact of AIDS. “Sorry Angel” succeeds in ticking all three boxes without falling into any one. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 19, 2018
Though the film resists easy categorisation, it often tumbles along like queer screwball, which chimes with its original French title: Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite, or Give Pleasure, Love and Run Fast. It’s a fine manifesto, and Honoré’s film excels at all three. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSep 3, 2018
Much more interesting than Jacques and Arthur's relationship is Christophe Honoré's subtle portrait of the early '90s as a time of accelerated mortality and mourning, but also of material encounters of all kinds. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnMay 19, 2018
Sorry Angel doesn’t strain from too much ambition; it’s a sharp snapshot of two men at pivotal moments in their lives, and ends on a note not too different from the one it starts on. But that cycle is central to its gentle intellectual flow. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMar 21, 2019
For all its vivid period atmosphere and striking scenes, there is a meandering quality that keeps the film from being truly involving. It's not the lack of sentiment, but perhaps the absence of any sort of momentum. Read full review
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganMay 19, 2018
Whether it’s a self-portrait, a series of sketches, an artist who is continuously working over a painful loss, Honore’s film betrays mixed emotions that may never be resolved as he carries the losses of that time with him forever. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 19, 2018
The film has some lovely beats, and good chemistry between its leads. Read full review
67
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 19, 2018
Shot in gorgeous turquoise and cerulean blues by that fine cinematographer, it is often a remarkably beautiful film and, with that suggestion of real experience, an inevitably sad one. Such qualities might not be enough to entirely disregard any feelings of familiarity, but they might just be enough to forgive them. Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriMay 19, 2018
Honoré’s scenes feel at once composed and curiously mundane, as if he’s trying to take the precision of his earlier work and mix it with a more realist impulse — or, if we’re being less charitable, as if he’s trying to will his aesthetic into something more “mature.” Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 19, 2018
Deladonchamps and Lacoste make for engaging leads and there is warmth and humour here too. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeMar 26, 2019
The camerawork is unnecessarily showy, full of swirls and flourishes, which further distracts from the central story. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 19, 2018
It is often poignant and humorous but also placid and complacent, with performances bordering on the self-regarding and even faintly insufferable. Read full review
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