The Strange Case of Angelica

Name: The Strange Case of Angelica
Genre: Drama
Released: December 29, 2010
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 75

2010

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: December 29, 2010

Summary: Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of 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, the young woman appears to come to life. For that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day andLate one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of 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, the young woman appears to come to life. For that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day and night. (The Cinema Guild)… Expand

Director: Manoel de Oliveira

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 97 min

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Keith Uhlich

Dec 23, 2010

Its stunningly composed images showing how Isaac is himself something of a ghost-given to staring off into the distance, being condescended to by those around him, a man perpetually outside the times. What he needs is to take that one extra step toward his spectral siren; the scene in which he does so might be one of the most exhilarating visions of death's sweet embrace ever filmed. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Mar 10, 2011

This fresh, highly original film, inspired by Oliveira's substantially different, never-filmed 1952 script, has been made with the greatest of ease and simplicity and with drollery and wit, yet its underlying impact is profoundly spiritual. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Feb 10, 2011

"Angélica" feels most like the film that argues Oliveira is this close to the beyond without ever bothering to knock first at death's door. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jan 6, 2011

Too shaggy at times, with digressions into science and history that come out flat and awkward. But there's a sweet, unshakeable poetry in the main idea of the film. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Dec 30, 2010

de Oliveira's film is a musical of a sort, its quietude occasionally lifted by work songs or chorales. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Dec 29, 2010

The charm of The Strange Case of Angelica lies in the way it balances this mysticism with a thoroughly secular sense of the business of everyday life. Read full review

Kate Taylor

May 13, 2011

An uneven but intriguing piece of whimsy that veers from powerfully symbolic cinematography into self parody. Read full review

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