Angelo My Love
| Angelo My Love | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Duvall |
| Produced by | Robert Duvall Gail Youngs |
| Written by | Robert Duvall |
| Starring | Angelo Evans |
| Cinematography | Joseph Friedman |
| Editing by | Stephen Mack |
| Release date(s) | 27 April 1983 |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Angelo My Love is a 1983 American drama film about New York City gypsies, directed by Robert Duvall. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Duvall first saw the lead actor, Angelo, in 1977 when he was 8 years old, having an argument with an older woman on Columbus Avenue that "sounded like a lovers quarrel"[2] The screenplay for Angelo My Love was written by Mr. Duvall, with some dialogue improvised by the gypsy actors, most of whom play themselves. His mother had a fortune-telling business.
Besides Angelo are his older brother Michael, his mother, his sister Debbie, and his girlfriend Patricia (Katerina Ribaka); his father Tony Evans, from the movie might have been thought to be absent, but is actually in a couple of scenes.
"Angelo is a kind of idealized sum-total of all New York street kids no matter what their ethnic backgrounds. He is physically small but he has such a big, sharply defined personality that he seems to be a child possessed by the mind and experiences of a con man in his 20's. Then, as the movie goes on, one sees Angelo moving from glib, smarttalking self-assurance to childhood tears and back again, all in the space of a few seconds of screen time. This, too, may be part of Angelo's con, but it's also unexpectedly moving as well as funny. Angelo, among other things, is scared of ghosts."[2]
Variety reported that Mr. Duvall spent more than $1,000,000 and five years on the film[3] and that many of the cast, including Angelo, did not read English.
San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles commercial screenings were documented, with a CineMax cable presentation in 1985.
[edit] Cast
- Angelo Evans - Himself
- Michael Evans - Himself
- Ruthie Evans - Herself
- Tony Evans - Himself
- Debbie Evans - Herself
- Steve Tsigonoff - Himself
- Millie Tsigonoff - Herself
- Frankie Williams - Himself
- George Nicholas - Himself
- Katerina Ribraka - Patricia
- Timothy Phillips - School Teacher
- Lachlan Youngs - Student Reporter
- Jennifer Youngs - Student Reader
- Louis Garcia - Hispanic Student
- Margaret Millan Gonzalez - Old Woman
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Angelo My Love". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1516/year/1983.html. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ^ a b Canby, Vincent (April 27, 1983), "'ANGELO MY LOVE,' DUVALL TALE OF GYPSIES", New York Times, http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0DEFD81138F934A15757C0A965948260
- ^ Herb (April 27, 1983), "Angelo, My Love (Color)", Variety, http://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=13370
