This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Absolutely amazing

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The Talk of Angels missed its title by a country mile so to speak. The expectations of the film deemed to be rather disappointing at best. Sure the cinematography was excellent. The settings were beyond belief. The actors were prepared to deliver, however the message was weak.The main character Mary, was indeed lovely in every way. She was indeed beautiful. The love scenes were poorly developed. The father was outstanding in terms of his role within the family. The son was good as well. Perhaps the story was too careful not to offend the two cultures involved in the story.The entertainment value was lost in its own sexual repression. The civil war dominance in the film apposed to the relationships on an intimate level. We needed more information on how love changes. We needed more closure on the question of love and angels to hear their voices, as do the times. I hope this story could be re=told in a more aggressive modern point of view.

This movie badly wanted to be of the "Thornbirds" variety, but they tried to cram it all into 2 hours. Unfortunately, this means that all the different plot elements are so rushed as to become nonsensical. You never see the development of the relationship between her and the children, or even much of her and the son. The movie focuses on so much meaningful interaction between her and the father that at first I kept thinking they were going to fall in love. It certainly seemed that way on his part, and the two definitely had a lot of chemistry. Perhaps it was jealousy you see when he finds the postcard?One thing that bothered me is that her governess friends keep endlessly harping on how "young, beautiful, naive and innocent" Mary is. Polly was 32 when she played this role, and although she is strikingly beautiful, she is hardly what I would call a girl. Even more so considering the time period of the film. I think a much younger, authentically Irish unknown would have suited the part better. The accents are a little mystifying for me. I don't know much about Spain, but only some of the characters spoke the proper "lisping" Castilian Spanish. Everyone else did not. Am I missing something here? The ending was horribly rushed, in my opinion. I understand her choice to leave, but some followup would have been nice. On the whole, this movie left me wanting a few hours more, and it was ultimately disappointing.

It may be the oldest storytelling device in the world. You take external events, usually a war or some political oppression. You draw grand sweeps that show passion and scope and boundless consequence.And in this opulence of effect you place a love story, folded within if you wish.After all, there is no emotion in existence that is stronger than romantic love and all its twists and perversions. But these are impossible to display because they are internal. So these internal locomotives are given the external clothes of the other fold.How many of our great stories are thus framed? How many films?Well, here's one. I suppose you judge these things on how powerful the emotions are that the love story evokes. This is a sort of "Casablanca" with the genders reversed. The woman needs to stunt her passions and "give" her lover to the higher fold, and live forever with the memory of one encounter.I admit, this rings solidly for me. I shake when I shape it in my heart.Back to the judgment: how effectively is this expressed in a way that the film plumbs and guides the waters of the heart it pulls. Does the thing give us tides?Well, the people are beautiful. But oddly, we know these actors from elsewhere and they have been more beautiful there. In particular we depend on Polly Walker here. She has an extraordinary appeal in other projects. "8 1/2 Women" was a difficult movie to survey, but once it sticks, it is Polly who pulls us through the canals of desire. "Enchanted April" was slight but she was powerful.She acts with her brow and has one of the most appealing brows in film.But, alas. Although lots of money was spent. And the sets are effective, we have something like "Head in the Clouds" where we know what we are supposed to get. And we might get it by mere suggestion but the film actually gets in the way.So the bad guys win this time. No passion.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

I really wanted to love this movie. I did love Vincent Perez, who always imbues his characters with smoldering good looks and charm and fine character. But there was no motivation for their romance, other than the fact that he was a man and she was a woman, and the movie was a love story. We never see why he falls for her, especially since he is rarely in the house with her. More chemistry is generated between Lavelle and her friends, and between herself and the family she takes care of. And the ending, without giving it away, made the movie kind of pointless. Rent it for Vincent, not the story.