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19. The Strange Case of Angelica – dir. Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal)
Manoel de Oliveira is still making films at the age of 103 … The Strange Case of Angelica only confirms the suspicion that Oliveira won’t be quitting anytime soon.
Angelica centers itself around the reanimating wonders of photographic art, but its fable concerns itself with the encroachment of the cinematic on a chimerical world divided into a series of rooms, frames, and landscapes … Angelica‘s atmosphere of muted washed-out colors, anachronistic knick-knacks, and old portraiture only makes necessary the odd Méliès-style special effects that suddenly, but tastefully, lift the two dream lovers into the ether of early cinema …
