Manoel de Oliveira's enchanting film, out on DVD this week, was a Cannes Film Festival hit last year. The 102-year-old Portuguese director has worked in film since the silent era.
Manoel de Oliveira, the director of "The Strange Case of Angelica" (out on DVD this week from Cinema Guild), is himself — to say the least — something of a strange case. He turns 103 this December and, having gotten his start in the age of silent cinema, has had a career trajectory unlike any other.
"The Strange Case of Angelica," a critical hit at last year's Cannes Film Festival, is a film that the Portuguese director had planned to make half a century ago. Written in 1952, it would have been his second feature, but the Antonio Salazar dictatorship, which he staunchly opposed, derailed his career. An athletic adventurer in his youth (he raced cars, competed in the pole vault and was a trapeze artist), Oliveira tended a farm and vineyard with his wife and directed only a handful of films in the first few decades of his career.
"The Strange Case of Angelica," a critical hit at last year's Cannes Film Festival, is a film that the Portuguese director had planned to make half a century ago. Written in 1952, it would have been his second feature, but the Antonio Salazar dictatorship, which he staunchly opposed, derailed his career. An athletic adventurer in his youth (he raced cars, competed in the pole vault and was a trapeze artist), Oliveira tended a farm and vineyard with his wife and directed only a handful of films in the first few decades of his career.
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