The Strange Case of Angelica
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Leaving January 1
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira | 97 mins | 2010
When a photographer is asked by a grieving family to shoot a funeral portrait of their deceased daughter, she miraculously appears to come alive. So begins a typically enchanting and richly detailed ghost story from Oliveira—one of his masterpieces, which glides with a sense of cinematic magic and day-to-day realism as it unfolds amid the agrarian rhythms of rural Portugal.
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