Angelo My Love
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Angelo My Love is a 1983 American
drama film
about New York City
gypsies, directed by Robert Duvall
. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
.
Duvall first saw the lead actor, Angelo, in 1977 when he was 8 years old, having an argument with an older woman on Columbus Avenue that "sounded like a lovers quarrel" The screenplay for Angelo My Love was written by Mr. Duvall, with some dialogue improvised by the gypsy actors, most of whom play themselves. His mother had a fortune-telling business.
Besides Angelo are his older brother Michael, his mother, his sister Debbie, and his girlfriend Patricia (Katerina Ribaka); his father Tony Evans, from the movie might have been thought to be absent, but is actually in a couple of scenes.
"Angelo is a kind of idealized sum-total of all New York street kids no matter what their ethnic backgrounds. He is physically small but he has such a big, sharply defined personality that he seems to be a child possessed by the mind and experiences of a con man in his 20's. Then, as the movie goes on, one sees Angelo moving from glib, smarttalking self-assurance to childhood tears and back again, all in the space of a few seconds of screen time. This, too, may be part of Angelo's con, but it's also unexpectedly moving as well as funny. Angelo, among other things, is scared of ghosts."
Variety
reported that Mr. Duvall spent more than $1,000,000 and five years on the film and that many of the cast, including Angelo, did not read English.
San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles commercial screenings were documented, with a CineMax cable presentation in 1985.
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about New York City
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gypsies, directed by Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
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. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
1983 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*William Styron *Henri Alekan *Yvonne Baby *Sergei Bondarchuk *Youssef Chahine *Souleymane Cissé *Gilbert de Goldschmidt *Mariangela Melato *Karel Reisz...
.
Duvall first saw the lead actor, Angelo, in 1977 when he was 8 years old, having an argument with an older woman on Columbus Avenue that "sounded like a lovers quarrel" The screenplay for Angelo My Love was written by Mr. Duvall, with some dialogue improvised by the gypsy actors, most of whom play themselves. His mother had a fortune-telling business.
Besides Angelo are his older brother Michael, his mother, his sister Debbie, and his girlfriend Patricia (Katerina Ribaka); his father Tony Evans, from the movie might have been thought to be absent, but is actually in a couple of scenes.
"Angelo is a kind of idealized sum-total of all New York street kids no matter what their ethnic backgrounds. He is physically small but he has such a big, sharply defined personality that he seems to be a child possessed by the mind and experiences of a con man in his 20's. Then, as the movie goes on, one sees Angelo moving from glib, smarttalking self-assurance to childhood tears and back again, all in the space of a few seconds of screen time. This, too, may be part of Angelo's con, but it's also unexpectedly moving as well as funny. Angelo, among other things, is scared of ghosts."
Variety
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Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
reported that Mr. Duvall spent more than $1,000,000 and five years on the film and that many of the cast, including Angelo, did not read English.
San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles commercial screenings were documented, with a CineMax cable presentation in 1985.
Cast
- Angelo Evans - Himself
- Michael Evans - Himself
- Ruthie Evans - Herself
- Tony Evans - Himself
- Debbie Evans - Herself
- Steve Tsigonoff - Himself
- Millie Tsigonoff - Herself
- Frankie Williams - Himself
- George Nicholas - Himself
- Katerina Ribraka - Patricia
- Timothy Phillips - School Teacher
- Lachlan Youngs - Student Reporter
- Jennifer Youngs - Student Reader
- Louis Garcia - Hispanic Student
- Margaret Millan Gonzalez - Old Woman