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"Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest", Aug 27 2011
By bernie "webviator" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: City of Angels / La Cité des Anges (Bilingual Edition) (DVD)
An angle, Seth (Nicolas Cage) on a mission to pick up a soul, is enamored of a woman, Dr. Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan) he comes across. Even though he is supposed to be invisible, she looked straight at him as a man. From that point on he contemplates maintaining a life with her. Unfortunately they are different species.A chance encounter with a mysteriously sensitive and understanding hospital patient, Nathaniel Messinger (Dennis Franz) opens up the Seth's opportunity by explaining that due to free will Seth can die and be reborn as human if he really wants to.
But does Seth want to give up immortality? And at what cost?
Maggie does not believe in angles; so how will she react?
This film has some excellent photography and the pictures of Tahoe make you want to live there forever.
The film was based but no exactly copied form an earlier movie "Wings of Desire" (1987).
If you are interested in fallen angels then you can not miss "The Horn Blows at Midnight" (1945)
Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"I'll say it was you...", April 15 2011
By Bobby Underwood "starlighthotel" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: City of Angels / La Cité des Anges (Bilingual Edition) (DVD)
Nicolas Cage gives a wonderful performance as Seth, an Angel who falls in love and begins to long for the ability to express that love, in a film that in some respects resembles the 1930's film "Death Takes a Holiday" with Fredric March and Evelyn Veneble. Seth's assignment as an angel is to help the dead cross over in this quasi remake of the Wim Wenders foreign film, "Wings of Desire." Few films since the glory days of Hollywood and the old studio system have been given the romantic glow of this film.Meg Ryan is Maggie, the heart surgeon who is the object of Seth's affection. He is stunned when she somehow senses his prescence when trying to save one of her patients, and is touched and bewildered by her. Andre Braugher steals every scene he is in as Seth's fellow Angel and friend. They all hang out at the library and gather every morning at the beach to see the sunrise and hear the singing of heaven.
Dennis Franz has a fine turn as a patient in Maggie's hospital who knows Seth is there because he too was once an Angel. As Seth and he become friends, Seth contemplates how wonderful it would be to truly love Maggie, and searches for the courage to leave heaven behind and, simply fall.
This is one of the most romantic movies to come out of Hollywood in decades and has a message about the wonderful things we all take for granted. More than that, it is a story about the importance of love, even one felt for only a moment, for it is that experience which makes us special among all creation. To love is all, and to be loved in return is truly divine.
There are some memorable scenes in this romantic and haunting film. One involves the simple act of shopping for fruit at a farmer's market. Another involves Maggie being able to feel Seth in her room but unable to see him. Even Hemingway's Moveable Feast plays a part in this magical throwback film to a bygone era. This is very much a film which could just as easily have been made in the 1930's.
I will not ruin the last portion of this film if you have not seen it, but as we all know there is a price we pay for being human. This film is for anyone who has ever loved someone as Seth does, who would trade all eternity for just one breath of her hair. If you have ever loved someone so much your heart ached when they were not with you, then you will be deeply moved by this film. It is painted in broad romantic brushstrokes and colored in rich oils not easily removed from our hearts. This is a truly memorable film you will watch over and over.
Films like this are rarely made anymore and this is one to cherish. You will never forget the line: "When they ask me what I liked best...I'll say it was you."
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Maggie Rice: "I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if there's no way we could ever be together.", Mar 3 2011
By Annie Van Auken - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: City of Angels / La Cité des Anges (Bilingual Edition) (DVD)
Have never been a big fan of romantic dramas, yet CITY OF ANGELS is an exception. The premise of this WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) remake: there's unseen angels among us who escort our souls to their next existence when we die. These ethereal beings are not necessarily trapped for all time in a netherworld of subservancy to the living.Seth (Cage) is one such spirit. He watches surgeon Maggie Rice (Ryan) trying to desperately save a man that he's come for, sees her look right at (and through) him when she fails, and instantly falls deeply in love with the lady. Seth follows and eventually makes himself visible to the chronically insomniac Maggie; he longs to be able to touch, to comfort and to be with her.
When Seth discovers that another of her patients, Mr. Messenger (Franz) is a fallen angel who chose to become mortal so he could marry and have a family, he must decide on either eternal life alone or a finite one with Maggie. The choice seems obvious to Seth but cruel fate intervenes. This love story has an incredibly sad and ironic ending.
The always compelling Andre Braugher, fresh from HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET, has an interesting small role as a fellow spirit. His fixed, big-eyed stare makes it clear that angels never blink. (Nick Cage has extended scenes where he keeps his eyelids from fluttering.) The heavenly shoreline gathering every sunrise is a memorable image, as are crowds of darkly dressed angels who mill about but can't be seen by mortals.
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.
(6.4) City of Angels (Germany/USA-1998) - Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan/Andre Braugher/Dennis Franz/Colm Feore
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