THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS

France | 1998 | 35mm | 113 min. | French with English subtitles
Director: Erick Zonca
Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Gregoire Colin
Stars Bouchez and Régnier shared the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival for their raw, deeply compassionate portraits of two young women who develop a friendship on the margins of contemporary France. Refusing easy clichés about youth, the film follows their diverging paths with honesty, capturing both the exhilaration of possibility and the compromises demanded by adulthood. Screening in a rare 35mm print courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research, Dreamlife remains one of the great discoveries of 1990s French cinema.