L'ange et la femme
Since the heyday of Romanticism, gallant ghosts have haunted our imaginations. Sometimes troubling, sometimes amusing, they have crossed continents and eras, as well as film genres, as the films gathered here bear witness. Evanescent and elusive, these romantic ghosts are of course a source of fantasy, but they also inhabit cinema marvelously well, where they defy time, genre and mise-en-scène, between appearance and disappearance.
In a snowy forest, an angel named Gabriel picks up the bullet-riddled body of a woman and brings it back to life. Captivated by her beauty, he falls in love with her. However, the murderers are still lurking nearby. L'ange et la femme is a dreamlike fable that oscillates between mysticism and eroticism, celebrating the beauty of actress Carole Laure.
Gilles Carle
Gilles Carle was a Quebec graphic artist, director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1960, first as a documentary filmmaker, then as a screenwriter, before directing several documentaries, including Percé on the Rocks. In 1965, he made his first feature-length fiction film, La vie heureuse de Léopold Z., although he had only been authorized to make a documentary. In 1966, after being reprimanded by his employer for turning his documentary project into a feature film, he left the NFB for Onyx Productions, with whom he wrote and directed Le viol d'une jeune fille douce (1968), Red (1970) and Les mâles (1971). Gilles Carle made his last feature films in the 1990s.
