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by Jürgen Fauth
Ninety-three year old Portuguese director Manuel di Oliviera's stylized, self-conscious film tells stories of love, abuse, marriage, and betrayal, but most of it happens off-screen. A kind of brainy "In the Mood for Love," the film lacks Wong-Kar Wei's sumptuous surface and isn't nearly as seductive. Its limping rhythms drag from overlong establishing shots to ponderous talk that takes itself much too seriously, leaving the audience struggling to catch up with what exactly happened to whom in the meantime. I won't deny "The Uncertainty Principle" a certain languid fascination but I would rather be taken straight to the heart of the action.
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