| Once Upon an Angel | |||||||||
| Director: | Vincent Perez | ||||||||
| Screenplay: |
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| Producer: | Virginie Silla | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty | ||||||||
| Editing: | Laurence Briaud | ||||||||
| Music: | Replicant[1] | ||||||||
| Distributor: | EuropaCorp | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 85 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||
| Language: | French | ||||||||
| Budget: | €4.3 million | ||||||||
Once Upon an Angel (French:Peau d'Ange,) is a 2002 French romantic drama film directed by Vincent Perez, starring Morgane Moré and Guillaume Depardieu.
Grégoire reluctantly returns to the countryside in order to oversee his mother's funeral. Being back in the small town where he was raised upsets him, as he is not ready yet to accept the fact his mother died. While looking for some comfort and solace, he meets a maid named Angèle. He manages to impress her by making up he was an important manager, although he only has a minor position in a cosmetics company. After they have spent the night in a hotel, he just leaves her but she cannot forget him, in particular because he was her first lover at all. Subsequently, she follows him and even manages to get hired as the maid of one of his colleagues. However, she then has to realise that Grégoire is about to become the son-in-law of his boss. Angèle observes how he is going to marry another woman for other reasons than love.
Once Upon an Angel premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on 24 August 2002, and was screened at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur on 28 September 2002. The film was released in France on 9 October 2002. An English subtitled direct-to-video version, including a making-of, a soundtrack, deleted scenes, a film poster and two short films, was released on 28 May 2003.
At the Cabourg Film Festival 2003, Moré was awarded the Swann d'Or for Best Actress.