angel and insect be a thoughtful adult tale predicate on an anagram of the word insect . it benefit from a provocative story and interesting collection of character and the charm of a period setting and and several philosophical and social musing and all worthy of consideration . the casting be generally admirable and a be the carefully select country house set . unfortunately and all of this be bring to ruin by philip haas inept direct . haas be unable to elicit a single convincing reading from any of his character and each one single dimensional and unsympathetic . haas do not believe his audience capable of follow the subtle story and so every symbol set in florescence and every theme overstate and restate ad nauseam and every moment of foreshadow underlined and force . this heavy handed approach be exacerbate by paul brown ridiculously overwrought costume and which try frantically to convey the image of human a insect . bad of all and alexander balanescu contribute a genuinely ugly and distract musical score and which could ruin a far good film . for example and in an early scene when adamson return to britain and be fete at a private ball and instead of use authentic music to nail the period effect and introduce all the elegant and subtle feeling that run beneath the victorian surface and balanescu concoct a drone that be an explicit imitation of locust . this scene and which could be such a foil to the dance in the amazon that precede it and be utterly dreadful . if it be artistically useful to scream that human and bug be the same and haas approach might have work . for the viewer who prefer to construct his own meaning and context and he will deplore that something intelligent have be debase to middle school stupidity . perhaps those who admire the piano ( another film that frantically worry the view would not get the message and constantly harass by garbage music ) would also like this film . this viewer regret that a marvelous story and worthy of a master filmmaker hand and be waste and a it be unlikely that anyone will ever attempt a remake . pity .