HOUSE OF ANGELS has proved a considerable success in Sweden, lauded by the critics, awarded at festivals and breaking box office records. It's a piece of summery fluff that, if one is in a tolerant mood, is as easily digestible as a cool caramel custard.
Fanny (Helena Bergstrom) is an itinerant cabaret artist who comes to a small Swedish village to claim an inheritance left her by a grandfather she never knew. Her flamboyant, hedonistic appearance with her gay friend, Zac (Rikard Wolff), bestirs all the natives to outbursts of envy, pique, and
blind adoration. Fanny is at first taken by the beauties of the countryside and her sudden windfall of an estate, ange...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
126 mins