If you’re going to shoot 80 percent of a film in extreme close-up, strictly training the camera on an actor’s face at the expense of everything around her, you better make damn well sure you give us an interesting character to consider.
Marlene, a flailing single mother played by a wobbly, one-note Marion Cotillard, is not an interesting character.
She’s Halley from “The Florida Project” minus any sort of humor or humanity, a self-destructive bore who never does anything to deserve our attention.
“Angel Face,” by extension, is not an interesting movie.
The debut feature from writer-director Vanessa Filho is a trite story about a walking disaster and the daughter caught her in path, the tedious melodrama only finding a heartbeat when it abandons the lead character and searches for change.Marlene is drunk the first time we meet her — so drunk we can almost smell it on her breath.
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