Your traditional Christmas-card angel (Emmanuelle Béart, the title character of Manon des Sources), bathed in white light, caressed by gentle breezes, and with the wings of a pterodactyl-sized dove, is marooned on Earth when one of the latter gets broken. Awwwww. (A couple of nontraditional touches: she speaks in the tongue of a soprano whale, and she develops a craving for French fries.) There are a handful of wonderfully kitschy images, in Maxfield Parrish style, of the angel communing with nature; but the plot mechanics -- a whole bellyful of them -- are just an imitation of an imitation of Steven Spielberg (i.e., E.T. by way of Splash). With Michael E. Knight and Phoebe Cates; directed by Tom McLoughlin. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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