Michele Placido News

Michael R. Roskam's Bullhead and Christophe Van Rompaey's Lena are selected for Official Competition at the 3rd edition of the European Film Festival of Les Arcs, France .

Angels Of Evil Cert: 15 Description: During the 1970s, handsome bank robber Renato Vallanzasca and his Banda della Comasina, including mentally unhinged best friend Enzo, become the scourge of Milan.

A gangster yarn from Italy that falls well short of the Eurovillain charisma on display in the likes of Mesrine and Carlos, writes Peter Bradshaw Veteran Italian actor and film-maker Michele Placido - who directed the crime thriller Romanzo Criminale - now gives us a big, brash but weirdly empty gangland drama based on the life and times of Renato ...

ANGELS OF EVIL * * * Italian director Michele Placido directs Kim Rossi Stuart in this biopic of notorious Italian criminal Renato Vallanzasca, who inevitably became a byword for criminal recklessness and bravado.