
Angel Face

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother's demons in order to get her back.
If you're looking for a film about bullying, child abandonment and child abuse, but really don't want to see a ray of hope or an ending, you're in luck! They've made a movie for you.
_Angel Face_ is a well-made film with a stupefying performance by child actor Ayline Aksoy-Etaix (across from a probably miscast Marion Cotillard)...but in a film that clocks in at over 2 hours, you'd think they'd have had time to squeeze in at least some semblance of a denouement.