The line between reality and fantasy blurs for a photographer (Ricardo Trepa) when a dead bride appears to come to life through his camera lens.
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| Pilar López de Ayala | Angelica |
| Filipe Vargas | Marido |
| Bruno Abraham-Kremer | Isaac |
| Leonor Silveira | Mother |
| Ana Maria Magalhaes | Clementina |
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The Strange Case of Angelica , the latest film from 102-year-old Portuguese writer-director Manoel de Oliveira, is a quiet tale, told through a rarely moving camera and a playful, bewitching smile. That smile, seen in the lens of a young photographer as he takes a picture of a beautiful corpse, haunts the rest of the movie, just as it stays with the movie’s hero. (Full review)