Saint Ange ( French Saint Ange ) is a 2004 French film directed by Pascal Logger . The first feature film by Pascal Logger [1] [2] . The film starred Virginie Ledoyen , Katriona McCall , Lou Doyon and Dorina Lazar .
| Saint Ange | |
|---|---|
| Saint ange | |
| Genre | horror drama |
| Producer | Pascal Lodge |
| Producer | Christoph Hans et al. |
| Author script | Pascal Lodge |
| In the main cast | Virginie Ledoyen Lou duillon Katriona McCall Dorina Lazar |
| Operator | Pablo Rosso |
| Composer | Joseph LoDuca |
| Film company | Focus features |
| Duration | 98 min |
| A country | France |
| Tongue | French English |
| Year | 2004 |
| IMDb | ID 0367000 |
Content
Story
In 1958, Anna Yurin got the job of a hostess in St. Ange, a neglected and remote orphanage located in the French Alps , owned by Madame Froncar. The last batch of children was transferred to another shelter shortly after the boy's mysterious death in the bathroom, casting a shadow on the reputation of the shelter and threatening to close it. In addition to Anna, only two remain in the shelter: the long-working cook Helenka and the maturely mentally ill orphan Judith, who claims that there are other, invisible children in the shelter.
Throughout her stay, Anna is faced with supernatural phenomena. However, Helenka considers the cause of her anxiety hallucinations, especially after she finds out that Anna is pregnant as a result of gang rape , a fact that Anna initially tried to hide. Anna learns that Judith is one of many World War II orphans sent to St. Ange in 1946; Judith was the only survivor due to harsh conditions.
Despite this explanation, Anna suspects that the children in the shelter were deliberately killed and hidden. Anna gains Judith's trust by making friends with her, and comforts her when Helenka drowned Judith's kittens. Judith tells Anna that the children live in a room behind a mirror in the bathroom, which turned out to be an abandoned bedroom. Helenka tries to stop them from entering the room, but Judith blows her head to stun her. Both women enter the bedroom and find rotten toys and leftover food. Judith realizes that the children have actually died, and asks Anna to stop searching, but she insists and takes the elevator leading to the basement. Anna finds herself in a sterile, hospital-like room with clean white walls and brightly lit lighting. There she is surrounded by children rising from muddy baths. Anna suddenly has a birth, which her children help her to take.
After some time, Fronkar and her assistant look for Anna in the basement, which has now become dark, with wet and shabby walls, and find her and her newborn baby dead on the floor. Deciding to leave them there, Fronkar and his assistant head upstairs to leave the building with Helenka and Judith; they suggest that Anna had hallucinations due to a nervous breakdown, as she considered herself the true culprit of the death of kittens. However, before leaving, Judith throws away her pills, as Anna had advised her before, and looks into Anna's former bedroom. There she sees Anna and the child next to the dead children, now like the ghosts of Saint Ange.
Cast
- Virginie Ledoyen - Anna Yurin
- Lou Doyon - Judith
- Katriona McCall - Froncar
- Dorina Lazar - Helenka
- Virginie Darmon - Matilda
- Jerome Suffle - Daniel
- Marie Henry - Marie
- Eric Pra - Social Worker
Links
- Official movie website
- Saint Ange on the Internet Movie Database
Notes
- ↑ Saint Ange - Feature film, fiction . Unifrance Date of treatment August 13, 2009.
- ↑ Saint Ange . Moria - The science fiction, horror and fantasy movie review site (June 7, 2009). Date of treatment August 13, 2009. Archived May 20, 2010.