Nice Article on Angel.

Its by a Canadian critic :

http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=8328&page=1

''Fate and talent in François Ozon’s Angel
Story about rise and fall of young eccentric British writer coming to Toronto’s movie theatres.

Based out of England in 1905, Angel Deverell (Romola Garai) is a gifted young writer who dreams of success, fame and love. But what will happen if all her dreams come true? Angel is François Ozon’s first English language feature, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, and will now open in Toronto and Vancouver on Friday, June 6.
“Wunderkind François Ozon here turns his considerable talents to adapting a novel written in the fifties by the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor. The book tells the story of a grocer’s daughter who dreams of becoming a famous writer and inhabiting the gorgeous country mansion that she often walks past but cannot enter. The precocious Angel (played by Romola Garai, who also appears in Atonement) pours all her fanciful romantic longings into flowery prose that eventually attracts the attention of a well-heeled London publisher (Sam Neill); fame soon follows, washing over her like a tidal wave”, writes Jane Schoettle one of Toronto International Film Festival’s International Programmers.
All of this is an excuse for Ozon to recreate, in his own inimitable fashion, the style and look of the great Hollywood studio melodramas of the thirties and forties. He summons up a candy-coloured world of fantasy and illusion in a series of stunning set-pieces, as the plush excesses of London supplant the homespun existence of the young Angel. At first Angel is nothing more than a bratty young girl looking out at the world through rose-coloured glasses, but she quickly reveals her true nature when she refuses to change one word of her manuscript. Nevertheless, her books are snapped up by Edwardian society, turning Angel into an insufferable and arrogant young woman whom none dare challenge. Her match comes in the form of the equally insufferable Esmé (Michael Fassbender), a struggling painter she believes to be a genius, but whose fate is to be shunned as a minor talent. Rich beyond her wildest dreams, Angel finds herself in a position to buy Paradise, the country mansion of her youthful dreams, and thus provide Esmé with a studio of his own. But Paradise , unsurprisingly, turns out to have its own challenges.''