Review: Christophe Honoré's 'Sorry Angel' is an exquisitely funny and bittersweet gay love story
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Mar 18, 2019
4 minutes
Blue really is the warmest color in "Sorry Angel," a superbly acted and swooningly intelligent romance between two men looking at life and love in opposite directions. But it is also the coolest color, the brightest, the darkest and by far the most prominent.
Like an early 20th-century Picasso of 21st-century French cinema, the writer-director Christophe Honore allows shades of blue to saturate every frame. It seeps into the characters' clothes and bedrooms, and also the tiled walls of a bathroom where one grievously ill man, Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), poignantly cradles another in the tub. A blue glow suffuses the medical clinic where Jacques discreetly
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