Angeliena 2021

MOVIE INFORMATION

Movie Name: Angeliena

Director: Uga Carlini

Cast: Euodia Samson, Tshamano Sebe, Thapelo Mokoena, June van Merch, Marciel Hopkins, Kuli Roberts, Colin Moss, Nicole Amy Madell, Roka Carlini-Vidulin, Neo Carlini-Vidulin.

Edited By: Rudolf Buitendach

Music By: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder

Distributed By: Netflix

Release Date: 2021-10-08

Release Year: 2021

Country: South Africa

Available Language: English

Budget: Not Expose

IMDB: 5.8

Box Office: Not Expose

Genre Main: Comedy

Genre Full: Comedy, Drama.

Filming Company: Towerkop Creations

Official Site: http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115317.php

Picture Color: color

Sound Mix: N/A

Picture Quality: 720p

File Size: 1GB

Story Line: After numerous life-changing revelations, a beloved parking attendant pieces a new plan together and chases her dream of traveling the world. The colorful opening of Uga Carlini’s Angelina suggests a giddy ride awaits: the camera follows a suitcase plastered with travel stickers moving along a conveyor belt at an airport. But such vibrant detail only points out the film’s lack of emotional substance. A parking attendant for a posh hospital in South Africa, Angelina (Euodia Samson) dreams of traveling the world, she adorns her little shack with tourist posters from faraway lands. At work, Angelina brings a glow to the austere parking lot, pinning red roses that she grows herself to the windscreen wipers of fancy SUVs. Such sweet-natured actions are presumably intended to endear Angelina to us, yet reduce her to a unidimensional worker with a heart of gold. The thinness of the characterization is made more pronounced by the cartoonishly evil Dr. Mitchell (Colin Moss), the hospital owner and Angeliena’s antagonist, a spewer of Trumpian one-liners. Ludicrously, the film takes a tone-deaf turn when Angeliena is revealed to be suffering from an unnamed muscular atrophy that motivates her to finally embark on her world trip. Out of the blue, she develops facial tics. The only affecting sequences are the few-and-far-between gatherings between Angeliena and her eccentric female friends. This is a film whose shallow critique of wealth inequality in post-apartheid South Africa falls flat, with its attempt to add nuance to humble lives doing little service to the hard-pressed community it tries to honor.