The Strange Case of Angélica
This year, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar presents a line-up of appealing titles by both young and established directors, from Xavier Dolan and Agnès Kocsis to Jean-Luc Godard and Manoel de Oliveira, who opened the programme on Friday. At 101, the world’s oldest director seems determined not to stop and The Strange Case of Angélica is there to prove it.
After adapting a short story by Eça de Queiroz, Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl (which premiered in Berlin in 2009), Oliveira this time decided to take a journey down memory lane for a story whose first draft he wrote back in 1952. Set in the city of Régua – in the region of Douro, where Oliveira lays most of his plots – Angélica centres on Isaac (Ricardo Trepa), a young photographer who is unexpectedly asked by a wealthy family to photograph their daughter, Angélica (Pilar Lopez de Ayala).
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This year, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar presents a line-up of appealing titles by both young and established directors, from Xavier Dolan and Agnès Kocsis to Jean-Luc Godard and Manoel de Oliveira, who opened the programme on Friday. At 101, the world’s oldest director seems determined not to stop and The Strange Case of Angélica is there to prove it.
After adapting a short story by Eça de Queiroz, Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl (which premiered in Berlin in 2009), Oliveira this time decided to take a journey down memory lane for a story whose first draft he wrote back in 1952. Set in the city of Régua – in the region of Douro, where Oliveira lays most of his plots – Angélica centres on Isaac (Ricardo Trepa), a young photographer who is unexpectedly asked by a wealthy family to photograph their daughter, Angélica (Pilar Lopez de Ayala).
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- 5/15/2010
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
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