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100Its stunningly composed images showing how Isaac is himself something of a ghost-given to staring off into the distance, being condescended to by those around him, a man perpetually outside the times. What he needs is to take that one extra step toward his spectral siren; the scene in which he does so might be one of the most exhilarating visions of death's sweet embrace ever filmed.
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90This fresh, highly original film, inspired by Oliveira's substantially different, never-filmed 1952 script, has been made with the greatest of ease and simplicity and with drollery and wit, yet its underlying impact is profoundly spiritual.
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88"Angélica" feels most like the film that argues Oliveira is this close to the beyond without ever bothering to knock first at death's door.
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75A captivating mix of formality, ambiguity and offbeat humor. On the surface a simple fable, it's actually much more.
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75Too shaggy at times, with digressions into science and history that come out flat and awkward. But there's a sweet, unshakeable poetry in the main idea of the film.
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70de Oliveira's film is a musical of a sort, its quietude occasionally lifted by work songs or chorales.
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70The charm of The Strange Case of Angelica lies in the way it balances this mysticism with a thoroughly secular sense of the business of everyday life.
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May 13, 201150An uneven but intriguing piece of whimsy that veers from powerfully symbolic cinematography into self parody.