'' Sorry Angel '' ( ) is a 2018 French drama film directed by Christophe Honoré . It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival . 1993 . Jacques ( Pierre Deladonchamps ) is a 39-year-old gay author living and working in Paris . He is a part-time , albeit inattentive , father to his young son Loulou , who stays with him every other night . Loulou is accustomed to his father 's bouts of self-indulgent melancholy as well as his manic appreciation for the arts and his string of young lovers . At the same time , Jacques is in the process of coming to terms with his health 's steady decline due to AIDS , which is simultaneously and severely affecting his ex-lover Marco . When Marco is rejected by his lover Thierry and comes to stay with Jacques , the two discuss again their intentions to commit suicide before they can be claimed by the disease . Jacques lives on the floor below his good friend Mathieu ( Denis Podalydès ) , an older gay man and newspaper editor who regular caters to Jacques 's flamboyant episodes
2018 Cannes Film Festival
2018 Cannes Film Festival
Sorry Angel