O Estranho Caso de Angélica 2010

A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: We think we're in for a weighty, Hitchcockian treatise on artistic obsession; Oliveira's intentions are a bit more impish, however, though no less profound. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A quiet tale, told through a rarely moving camera and a playful, bewitching smile. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: 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. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Nearly every shot in this new movie contains one glory or another. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: "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. Read more

Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: An uneven but intriguing piece of whimsy that veers from powerfully symbolic cinematography into self parody. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: The Strange Case of Angelica is indeed strange and unsettling. What it isn't is compelling or satisfying. Read more

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Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: De Oliveira's film is a musical of a sort, its quietude occasionally lifted by work songs or chorales. Read more