Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Oct 4, 2002 Wide
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Manoel de Oliveira's The Uncertainty Principle is based, like several other of the director's films, on the writing of Agustina Bessa-Luís. The film opens with a long shot of an old cathedral in the rain, as a young woman, Camila (Leonor Baldaque, the granddaughter of Bessa-Luís), surreptitiously enters, presumably to pray, then emerges a short while later. Then the conversation of two brothers, Daniel (Luis Miguel Cintra) and Torcato Roper (José Manuel Mendes), Camila's former tutors, is heard
Oct 4, 2002 Wide
All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (4)
Takes itself much too seriously.
The philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable.
Though excessively tiresome, The Uncertainty Principle, as verbally pretentious as the title may be, has its handful of redeeming features, as long as you discount its ability to bore.
Dense and enigmatic...elusive...stagy and stilted
Seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable, the director's experiment is a successful one.
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