Engel mit schmutzigen Flügeln

"Angels with Dirty Wings" (2009, Germany, "Engel mit Schmutzigen Flügeln"), is another low-budget sexploitation offering by the German husband-and-wife team of Roland Reber and Maria Anna Eich. This offering focuses on the "live your truth" principle, which two of the Angels (the only ones we know off) seeks to instil into a candidate who applied to join their MCC. The stoic Angels "guides" the initiate through the staggered and stilted sharing of philosophical ideology. The initiate's truth essentially boils down to her shagging anything which moves and by doing so exercising control in the situation and thus in her life. As such, the storyline is not complex nor the message of the film, which in more complex films would need to also rely on aspects such as, cinematography, editing, atmosphere, clever symbolism etc. This despite, most filmmaking aspects worked pretty well and more than mere traces of an intentional and artistic atmosphere is created. Acting could have been a lot better (esp. By the stoics) and the script substantially more refined and developed, but given the available budget and substantial task sharing, the film works well enough. 6/10.