When a deceased bride comes to life through a photgrapher's viewfinder he finds himself falling in love with her in this Portuguese fantasy-tinged romance. More
Directed by Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira, still making films after passing his one hundredth birthday, The Strange Case of Angelica was entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Hide
de Oliveira brings a wider perspective to everything he shoots; if he places his camera in the middle of a street, he tries to convey the way it was decades ago, not just how it is now. Full review.
While it is evidently the work of an artist with great stores of wisdom and a long view of history, it also has a playful, wry quality that can only be described as youthful. Full review.
An especially accomplished example of the helmer's favorite theme of impossible love expressed in precise, comic terms as a young photographer is sent reeling by an encounter with the decked-out corpse of a beautiful bride. Full review.
People yawn over "cliches" , but something really different comes along? Won't see it . AH well, I shall. :)