Talk of Angels (1998)

Directed by

Nick Hamm

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

12+

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the mid-1930s, an Irish governess travels to Spain to teach English to the daughters of a wealthy family. She starts an affair with the family's married eldest son while the Spanish Civil War begins to escalate around them.

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What happens

Talk of Angels is a film directed in 1996 by Nick Hamm, but not released by its production company, Miramax, until 1998. Based on the 1936 novel Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien, which was banned in Ireland when first published, with a script co-written by Ann Guedes and Frank McGuinness, Talk Of Angels tells the story of a young Irish governess who travels to Spain in the mid-1930s to teach English to the young daughters of a prominent family. Over the course of the film, she becomes drawn to the family's married eldest son, and their affair unfolds with the increasing violence associated with the early days of the Spanish Civil War as a backdrop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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