San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Great pleasures.
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France · 1963
1h 24m
Director Jacques Demy
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet
Genre Romance, Drama
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A hypnotic tale of gambling, love, seduction, and obsession at the roulette wheel. When a bank clerk and a compulsive gambler fall in love, they use each other as good luck charms but soon enough their luck runs out.
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Great pleasures.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Seen through Demy's eyes (and Raoul Coutard's shimmering black-and-white photography), their extravagance is so effortlessly cool, you feel somehow lucky just to be there with them.
TV Guide Magazine by Frank Lovece
The title of the film is most unfortunate because it gives no indication of the film's stark theme. Moreau is good as the disenchanted woman, but Mann is less effective.
New Times (L.A.) by Jean Oppenheimer
Demy's films are often described in terms of music; this one is more like a tango in which one person leads and refuses to forfeit the position.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Because Bay of Angels reveals rather than moralizes, because its concerns are character and psychology, it's a potent showcase for Moreau's gifts.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Most of all, it's an early chapter of Demy's courtship with the provincial France of his youth, with the most bewitching generation of French actresses, and with movies.
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