Customer Reviews
complete and utter tosh - By: Fifi, 19 Dec 2008 
tried at least 5 times to get into this but couldn't get past the first 15 minutes. There are so many characters who only appearin disjointed, irritating little sections - as soon as you start to find one vaguely interesting, it switches to another. Some great namesin this but what they were thinking of when they signed up to bein this
Don't waste your time - By: C., 11 Nov 2008 A pretentious & extremely boring series wich insults the viewer's intelligence. A complete bluff.
Worst film I have ever watched! - By: Jo, 14 Sep 2008 I simply cannot believe that anyone can sit through this film & come out at the end having enjoyed it. When I saw the cast I thought I wasin for a treat - I though wrong. This has to be, without a doubt, the WORST film I have ever seen. It is all so unbelievable. A complete waste of 6 hours of my life.
Piece of art - By: Lukasz Madera, 17 Jul 2008 
There is no review that evenin 10 _ would describe how amazing this film is. Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thomsonin roles of their lives. IT'S A MUST SEE!
So true to our phantasms - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 19 May 2008 Welcome to New Yorkin Reagan's time,in the days when Reagan declared that AIDS was a divine punishment to homosexuals. And AIDS are taking their toll on gay menin New York City. All kinds, from the prudent to the careless, from the loving & lovable to the hateful & spiteful. But indeed the film is not about that, them & their types, or even those who can afford AZT or not. It is about love & what love can be, how love can be revealed when confronted to some treachery, or what looks like some treachery though it is only frightin front of the disease for some or coming out of the closet for others. Add to that a new born homosexual who is a reaganite & a mormon at the same time, which is a lot against his new birth & a clear cut condemnation that will prevent him from being properly baptized & christened. Add to that a mormon mother takenin the whirlwind & whirlpool of this revelation & confrontation to death & how she will be able to cope for one & even save the day of several of them, including her own son. But even so, that's only one little part of the film. It then plays on the visions some have, on the angels some can see, all angels of death. Those angels take the shape of Ethel Rosenberg for the lawyer who managed to get her death penalty. The angels also take the shape of a real female angel with wings & all that is able to take a couple more to their death, lead them to the ladder, Jacob's ladder that leads straight up to heavens. But that both Christian & Jewish imagery & symbolism is not enough to satisfy the baroque taste of the director. Heaven is not going to be the garden you may think it is. It is a vast ruined temple & city where some clerk or even bureaucrats are managing the fate of the dead from behind a long table piled up with files & papers, & the prophet who is probably not as Jewish as many others refuses to abide by their decision & demands more life & he does go back to life, he resurrectsin a way. And this leads to the end of Reagan, of the cold war, the perestroika & Gorbachev, & a new erain the world. If only they could have known this new era was going to lead to eight years of absolutely nightmarish regression, two wars, & a lot of terrorism amplified & multiplied by the war-mongering of a vengeful tribe of American politicians who did not deserve to be appointed to their positions, & I say appointed since they were not elected properly, at least for those who should have been elected. In retrospect the joy of 1990, January 1990 mind you, hardly three months after the fall of the Berlin Wall was going to be rather short-lived & be buriedin the sex-play of a president & then the bellicose vengeful adventures of another. Altogether by far nearly sixteen years lost to the phantasms of two men. Yes the angels arein America, the angels of death that give you a wet dream first & lead you to death afterwards, the little death & the big death unifiedin one single jump into empty space & the fall through the cosmos. An amazing film that seems to reflect a whole period & at the same time to express the distantiation we have been able to build thanks to nearly twenty years of crisis & plain at times painful living.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
