| As Angel demonstrates, Ozon not only admires the classical cinema's great melodramatists, but also understands their integration of content and style. |
| Among the great melodramatists of Hollywood, he's the one who brought a philosophical self-awareness to the genre. |
| Apart from the traditions of Italian stage farce it owes as much to silent comedy as the other films owe to the silent cinema's melodramatists. |
