The Angel and the Woman

The Angel and the Woman
L'Ange et la femme
Directed by	Gilles Carle
Written by	Gilles Carle
Produced by	Robert Lantos Stephen J. Roth
Starring	Carole Laure Lewis Furey Stephen Lack
Cinematography	François Protat
Edited by	Ophera Hallis
Music by	Lewis Furey John Lissauer
Production company	Films RSL
Release date	April 7, 1977 (1977-04-07)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	French English
Budget	$75,000[1]

The Angel and the Woman (French: L'Ange et la femme) is a 1977 Canadian fantasy romance film written and directed by Gilles Carle and starring Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, and Stephen Lack.[1] The film follows a woman who, after being brutally shot, dies in the snow and is resurrected by an angel who falls in love with her and eventually teaches her how to incinerate objects with her mind.[2] The film is shot entirely in black-and-white and attracted some controversy due to its explicit unsimulated sex scenes between the two leads.[3]

Cast

• Carole Laure as Girl
• Lewis Furey as Angel Gabrielle
• Jean Comptois as Bandit
• Joe Elsnor as Bandit
• Conrad Peterson as Bandit
• Stephen J. Roth as Bandit
• Stephen Lack as Guest
• Pierre Giard as Guest
• Stefan Wohl as Guest
• David Caissey as Guest
• Réal Belzé-Belval as Guest
• J. Léo Gagnon as Father
• Jeanne Gagnon as Mother
• David Shimo as Chauffeur
• Georges Lévesque as Valet

Production

This film contains non-simulated sexual acts (vaginal penetration, fellatio and ejaculation) between the two main actors, Carole Laure and Lewis Furey. It is a fact that at the beginning of filming Laure was director Gilles Carle's girlfriend. In Carle's intentions, the sex act between Laure and Furey was supposed to remain a one-off, but in fact the two actors fell in love during filming, moved in together and later married.[4]

See also

• List of films about angels

References

1. Harcourt, Peter (December 2007). "The Reality of Dreams: A Presentation of L'Ange et la Femme (1977)". CineAction (73/74): 15. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
2. Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (6 December 2012). From the Sacred to the Divine: A New Phenomenological Approach. Springer Shop. p. 167. ISBN 9789401108461. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
3. Tom Newth. The Imaginary Documentaries of Montreal Filmmakers Frank Vitale, Allan Moyle, and Stephen Lack. popOptiq. February 20, 2015
4. La Revue du cinéma, image et son, écran, 1980 at Google Books

External links

• The Angel and the Woman at IMDb