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Dir-scr Manoel de Oliveira. Portugal-Spain-France-Brazil 2010. 104minsNow aged 101, Portuguese maestro Manoel de Oliveira is one of the surpassing prodigies of cinema. He continues not only to film but to flout commercial logic with features that are intransigently eccentric and calculated to please only himself and a happy few of long-term admirers.The rarefied tone and somewhat funereal mood will make Angelica one for only his most faithful art-house distributors.His latest film has all the maestros subtlety and precision, but lacks the more accessible touch that gave Belle Toujours and Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl some slim, but tangible, chances of crossover appeal. A contemplation of love and metaphysics, The Strange Case of Angelica finds
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