Sorry Angel: reviews

What the critics say average 8.1 from 7 outlets

• 9.1 Vanity FairRichard Lawson 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. Read
• 9.0 The Hollywood ReporterJon Frosch Sensuality and mortality commingle defiantly in Christophe Honore?s radiant and wrenching new film, 'Sorry Angel' ('Plaire, aimer et courir vite'). Premiering in competition at Cannes, the latest effort from the talented, wildly erratic, incorrigibly French writer-director is a tale of sex and death, desire and disease, love and friendship of one man coming into his own and another preparing to say goodbye to the world and let its wonders slip from his grasp. Read
• 8.9 Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang "Enough of this soppiness," a side character says at one point, armoring herself and the movie against the sentimentalism that threatens to creep in. It's this refusal to milk tears that makes the film so stealthily moving. Read
• 8.3 The WrapBen Croll Honoré?s deliberately paced, willfully unsentimental character study is like the yin to the yang of last year?s Cannes Grand Prize winner, 'BPM'. Read
• 8.0 IndiewireEric Kohn '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
• 7.8 VarietyPeter Debruge Honoré at last makes good on our faith in his talent, flashing back to 1993 to deliver a deeply personal queer romance that combines his best qualities as a filmmaker. Read
• 5.5 Screen DailyFionnuala Halligan The French title, 'Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite' makes more sense when it comes to deciphering this personal jumble; a film without highs or lows, a collection of people and thoughts and dialogue which can get lost in translation. Read
• New York TimesGlenn Kenny 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