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The Angel
The Angel is a story about women. About inheriting and enduring Mummy’s pain, and when dependence determines every decision you make.
Lea grows up in a home in which she is given no protection. From being a cheerful, curious little girl, Lea sees her life brutally change when her mother returns to her ex-husband Ole. The death dance between the two adults damages the child growing up between them.
Lea turns to inebriation in order to cope with everyday life in her family. Then Lea gives birth to her daughter Sonja. She wants to make a clean break with her family and start a new life. She wants to take care of her child, provide her with the protection she herself was deprived of. But Lea soon realizes she is lacking this ability, and consequently has to make an impossible decision.
Director Margreth Olin made her debut as documentary film maker with her graduation film In the House of Love in 1995. In 1998, her first full feature documentary In the House of Angels [Dei mjuke hendane] premiered in Norwegian cinema theatres, and won a number of prizes. Her breakthrough came with the film My Body ([Kroppen min] 2002), which won several awards nationally and internationally.
NFI/red.
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