Synopsis
Guardian Angels (Les Anges gardiens, 1995) is a French crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jean-Marie Poiré — the filmmaker behind The Visitors. The film stars Gérard Depardieu and Christian Clavier.
A Paris nightclub owner gets a desperate call from an old army buddy in Hong Kong: pick up a seven-year-old Chinese boy and thirty million dollars, and get them safely to the boy's mother in France. The friend never finishes the sentence — a truck takes care of that. Depardieu's character flies out, pulls the child from under the local mob's noses, and stashes the cash inside the daily planner of an unsuspecting Catholic priest. The chase follows them all the way back to Paris.
Depardieu and Clavier run on opposite frequencies — one blunt and physical, the other hopelessly earnest — and that gap is where most of the laughs live. It's fast-moving, cheerfully chaotic, and exactly what a French action-comedy from the nineties is supposed to feel like. Stream Guardian Angels online on iFILM.
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