The Strange Case of Angelica

Veteran Portuguese writer and director Manoel de Oliveira continues to deliver films at an astonishing rate despite being over a century old and a career that's in its eighth decade which is more interesting than his work of late. In this romantic ghost story, a photographer falls in love with a dead girl whom he has to photograph on the night of her death at the request of her parents. The story is an interesting concept that has haunted de Oliveira for half century which would have made for a great short film. Therefore to drag it to a feature, it falls apart on several levels from the writing to the performances, specially the lead by Ricardo Trêpa who's the grandson of the director. 1001 Films' coverage of films on DVD.