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Though the focus is on one older woman (effectively played by Sonia Guedes) the film's spirit is embodied by the whole town, which lingers in the memory.
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What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Its clever final plot twist adds a gratifying jolt of the uncanny to what is otherwise a charming, bittersweet meditation on the passage of time and the equivocal power of images to capture an older world at the moment of its disappearance.
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Brazilian filmmaker Júlia Murat's first narrative feature is a mesmerizing, slow-build marvel.