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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Rossy de Palma, Penélope Cruz, Britta Smith, Marisa Paredes, Veronica Duffy, Polly Walker, Vincent Pérez, Frances McDormand, Ariadna Gil, Ruth McCabe, Francisco Rabal, Franco Nero ...MORE

Cast: Rossy de Palma, Penélope Cruz, Britta Smith, Marisa Paredes, Veronica Duffy, Polly Walker, Vincent Pérez, Frances McDormand, Ariadna Gil, Ruth McCabe, Francisco Rabal, Franco Nero, Leire Berrocal, Anita Reeves ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Political drama, Period piece, Indie

Talk Of Angels is a film directed in 1996 by Nick Hamm, but not released by its production company, Miramax, until 1998. The film received mostly unfavorable comparisons to Casablanca, Dr. Zhivago, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, and The Leopard. Based on the 1936 novel Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien, which was banned in Ireland when first published, with a script co-written by Ann Guedes and Frank McGuinness, Talk Of Angels tells the story of a young Irish governess who travels to Spain in the mid-1930s to teach English to the young daughters of a prominent... MORE

Talk Of Angels is a film directed in 1996 by Nick Hamm, but not released by its production company, Miramax, until 1998. The film received mostly unfavorable comparisons to Casablanca, Dr. Zhivago, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, and The Leopard. Based on the 1936 novel Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien, which was banned in Ireland when first published, with a script co-written by Ann Guedes and Frank McGuinness, Talk Of Angels tells the story of a young Irish governess who travels to Spain in the mid-1930s to teach English to the young daughters of a prominent family. Over the course of the film, she becomes drawn to the family's married eldest son, and their affair unfolds with the increasing violence associated with the early days of the Spanish Civil War as a backdrop. Entertainment Weekly described it as "Casablanca-derived" but called the main characters "blandly pretty" and "pretty bland". The LA Times argued that "Walker remains the primary distraction" and that "the sum, as they all too often say, is not quite that of the parts. And "Talk of Angels" unfortunately exists in that romance-novel realm in which political concerns are mere adornments LESS