From Belgium and the Netherlands comes Serge Frydman's French-speaking My Angel in which Vanessa Paradis, a beautiful but inexpressive actor, plays a drifter, the alarm bell of whose biological clock is about to go off.

Forced to flee an angry Brussels pimp after taking responsibility for a dead whore's 15-year-old son, she forms a relationship with her temporary charge that turns maternal. The film bristles with sensitivity and wanders across the flat landscape, getting nowhere in particular.