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Une pale copie des ailes du désir de Wenders. Un film ennuyeux, sans substance, superficiel. C'est désolant et malgré tout des films comme ça sont reálisés tous les jours aux ...
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Eternidad feliz vs. ¿vida mortal?



Desde las alturas pasan los días observando y de vez en cuando, si la situación lo amerita, intervienen para dar apoyo o ayuda a aquellos seres humanos que los necesitan. Invisibles. No tienen sentido del gusto, olfato y tacto. Son criaturas celestiales, que escuchan música al amanecer y en el ocaso. Angeles.

Basada en las cintas de Win Wenders, Alas del Deseo y Tan lejos, tan cerca, City of Angels es una historia de amor entre un ángel llamado Seth y una mujer mortal llamada Maggie.

Seth es uno de los muchos ángeles que deambulan por la Tierra mientras investiga cómo es la existencia humana. En una oportunidad, mientras ayuda a un moribundo hacer la transición de la vida a la muerte, queda cautivado por la voluntad y determinación de su doctora, Maggie Rice, de no dejarlo ir, incluso cuando todo ya está perdido.

Ante la desesperación e incomprensión de Maggie por la muerte de su paciente, Seth trata de consolarla infructuosamente y sin querer, pronto ambos se enamoran. El descubrimiento por parte de Maggie de que Seth es un ángel y que su amor está condenado a no ser posible vislumbra un futuro triste e infeliz.

No es sino hasta que por medio de un ángel transformado en humano, Seth se entera que, si es su voluntad, puede abandonar la eternidad y cambiar sus alas por un verdadero cuerpo humano. Pero, ¿será capaz Seth de dejar su inmortalidad sólo por el amor que siente por ella? ¿Maggie corresponderá a sus sentimientos?

En City of Angels hay una cualidad etérea innegable; es un drama deslumbrador, dirigido de una manera que inspira y constantemente provoca la sensación de que se está en un viaje de descubrimiento. El tiempo parece detenerse mientras somos cautivados por ángeles invisibles y una historia que derrama fragilidad, intensidad y emociones profundas.

La película trata de de ofrecer una cierta meditación en temas tan universales como el espíritu y la materia, el escepticismo, el autoconocimiento, las experiencias que cambian la vida y la idea de que existen dos dimensiones -la humana y la espiritual- en la Tierra.

A través de cautivadoras interpretaciones por parte de Meg Ryan, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Franz y Andre Braugher, una hermosa dirección artística y de fotografía, un guión ingenioso y una banda sonora que oscila entre la emotividad y la sensualidad, el film logra un impacto emotivo que hace meditar si es o no el amor lo suficientemente importante y necesario como para abandonarlo todo, incluso la eternidad feliz, a cambio de la maravillosa sensación de vivir.

"I'll Say It Was You"
Nicolas Cage gives a wonderful performance as Seth, an Angel who falls in love and begins to long for the ability to express that love in a film that in some respects resembles the 1930's film "Death Takes a Holiday" with Frederick March and Evelyn Veneble. Seth's assignment as an angel is to help the dead cross over in this quasi remake of the Wim Wenders foreign film, "Wings of Desire." Few films since the glory days of Hollywood and the old studio system have been given the romantic glow of this film.

Meg Ryan is Maggie, the the heart surgeon who is the object of Seth's affection. He is stunned when she somehow sences his prescence when trying to save one of her patients and he is touched and bewildered by her. Andre Braugher steals every scene he is in as Seth's fellow Angel and friend. They all hang out at the library and gather every morning at the beach to see the sunrise and hear the singing of heaven.

Dennis Franz has a fine turn as a patient in Maggie's hospital who knows Seth is there because he too was once an Angel. As Seth and he become friends, Seth contemplates how wonderful it would be to truly love Maggie, and searches for the courage to leave heaven behind, and simply fall.

This is one of the most romantic movies to come out of Hollywood in decades and has a message about the wonderful things we all take for granted. More than that, it is a story about the importace of love, even one felt for only a moment, for it is that experience which makes us special among all creation. To love is all, and to be loved in return is truly divine.

There are some memorable scenes in this romatic and haunting film. One involves the simple act of shopping for fruit at a farmer's market. Another involves Maggie being able to feel Seth in her room but unable to see him. Even Hemingway's Moveable Feast plays a part in this magical throwback film to a bygone era. This is very much a film which could just as easily have been made in the 1930's.

I will not ruin the last portion of this film if you have not seen it, but as we all know there is a price we pay for being human. This film is for anyone who has ever loved someone as Seth does, who would trade all eternity for just one breath of her hair. If you have ever loved someone so much your heart ached when they were not with you, then you will be deeply moved by this film. It is painted in broad romantic brushstrokes and colored in rich oils not easily removed from our hearts. This is a truly memorable film you will watch over and over.

Films like this are rarely made anymore and this is one to cherish. You will never forget the line: "When they ask me what I liked best...I'll say it was You".

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