Perhaps, you will never get a chance to see a stranger film than this one. It is shot in a classic style, however, it is rather complex to understand. Many spectators are confused about the message of the film made by one of the oldest European directors in the world, a 102-year-old Manoel de Oliveira.
The answer is quite simple though: it is just an unusual love story of the photographer Issak and the soul of a lately departed young beauty Anchelica. The program director of the VOICES Festival Igor Guskov introduced the film for the audience, admitting that it is one of his favorites.
The protagonist is lost in guesses and reflections that are driving him mad. Every night Isaak is having nightmares: the soul of the departed girl, whose picture he has taken at the request of her parents, is coming to visit him. It really looks like the girl is in love and wants to take him with her.
The film is filled with “prolonged shots” that create an effect of light understatement and puzzles the audience all the time. Until the last minutes of the film it is not clear, when the climax is going to take place and how this strange story is going to end. Meanwhile, you still have a chance to bate your curiosity having watched the drama in “Salyut” cinema within the VOICES Festival.
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