26 September 2023

Angel of Mine

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Reviewed by Rama Gaind.

Director: Kim Farrant, R&R Films.

Cast: Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski, Richard Roxburgh, Luke Evans.

Parental grief can take many forms. For divorced mother Lizzie Manning (played by Rapace, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest) in Angel of Mine, it takes the form of deranged stalking and kidnapping.

Inspired by real events, this is a gripping psychological thriller about a woman who begins to lose her grip on sanity when she starts to think her daughter is still alive. She becomes convinced that the daughter of a stranger is actually her daughter. She becomes obsessed with the girl and loses touch with reality.

Manning, an emotionally imbalanced woman, is battling for custody of her son and juggling her job as a sales representative for a cosmetic line. Her life is turned upside down when she crosses paths with Lola (Annika Whiteley, A Single Rider), a young girl whom she believes to be the daughter she lost seven years ago in a hospital fire.

Unable to let her thoughts go, Lizzie first stalks and then shrewdly befriends Lola’s mother Claire Bradley (Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale), inching her way into Lola’s life, at the expense of her own son and to the bewilderment of her parents. Claire grows suspicious by the discovery that this strange woman has begun systematically following her little girl, locked within the grip of obsession.

As Lizzie’s fixation heightens and her behavior becomes increasingly disturbing, Claire confronts Lizzie, bringing deeply buried secrets to the surface and a shockingly devastating truth that connects them both.

The thriller about obsession and loss is based on the 2008 French film, L’Empreinte de L’Ange.

Thanks to R&R Films, PS News has been given five double passes to give away to lucky readers to see Angel of Mine at a local cinema. To be a winner, all you have to do is answer this simple question: name a film that previously featured Noomi Rapace? Entries should be sent to [email protected] by Monday, 2 September 2019. Names of the winners will be announced in Frank Cassidy’s PS-sssst…! column on 3 September 2019.

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