"A Religiosa Portuguesa", with its postcard perfect photography of Lisbon, its tongue in cheek hieratic dialogues, its strange mix of allusions to portuguese mythology, its superb performances of fado by Camané and Aldina Duarte, is cool, entrancing, almost moving at times. It sometimes feels like a Manuel de Oliveira movie made good, a kind of savant reinterpretation of the slow ponderous style of portuguese art cinema, enlivened by dry wit, songs, mystery and just the right amount of storytelling. Eugene Green makes it come aaaliiiive, like that, in slow motion.
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