Tag: Renato Vallanzasca

Angel of Evil

Angel of Evil

dir. Michele Placido (2010)

Placido_Angel of Evil

Perhaps this biopic of Italian bank robber Renato Vallanzasca loses something in translation. Like Roger Avary’s 1994 heist film Killing Zoe it presents as something of a prolonged and slavish homage to the allurement, sexiness and (yes) consummate stupidity of high-blown criminality.