The Strange Case Of Angelica (2010)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 2
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The new film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, The Strange Case of Angelica is a magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young bride, Angelica, who mysteriously passed away. Arriving at their estate, Isaac is struck by Angelica's beauty, but when he looks through his lens, something strange happens - the young woman appears
Cast
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Ricardo Trepa
Isaac -
Luís Miguel Cintra
L 'ingenieur, L'ingenie... -
Pilar López de Ayala
Angelica -
Ana Maria Magalhães
Clementina -
Isabel Ruth
La domestique -
Leonor Silveira
La mere -
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The Strange Case of Angelica is indeed strange and unsettling. What it isn't is compelling or satisfying.
Top CriticAn uneven but intriguing piece of whimsy that veers from powerfully symbolic cinematography into self parody.
A quiet tale, told through a rarely moving camera and a playful, bewitching smile.
Nearly every shot in this new movie contains one glory or another.
"The Strange Case of Angelica" tells its tale of love and death with a captivating mix of formality, ambiguity and offbeat humor. On the surface a simple fable, it's actually much more.
de Oliveira's film is a musical of a sort, its quietude occasionally lifted by work songs or chorales.
This whimsical, ethereal tale of love and death is as light as a feather, but charming in its own way.
An old-fashioned 21st Century movie.
Some dreamlike photography and a soothing musical score are pluses but slow, draggy telling is likely to frustrate the viewer.
Stunningly magnificent spellbinding magical tale.
The narrative unreels with the simplicity of a silent movie; many scenes are shot from a single camera set-up with few cuts, the shadowy, stagy interiors backed by Chopin, as if it were a live piano accompaniment.
...a whimsical fable, the meditation of a very old man looking to the past, looking towards death. It has the impact of a half smile.
May be the most accessible of the ten Oliveira films I've seen so far.
Because of his age and experience, 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.
More mundane than magical, The Strange Case of Angelica is neither strange nor lively enough to lift anyone's spirits.
A distinctive, touchingly old-fashioned piece of work, and unmistakably one made by a director whose life has spanned eras.
The mystical when not earthy, Chaplinesque images are enchanting. In particular the artist's pursuit of his elusive muse, ecstatically locked in a wordless embrace with the beaming apparition as she takes him on a journey floating across the night sky.
Probably too film school for most, this is a masterpiece by a master. A hard look at the disjunction of film and art in a ghostly setting.
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Foreign Titles
- O Estranho Caso de Angelica (DE)
- The Strange Case of Angelica (O Estranho Caso de Angelica) (UK)
