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Oct 11, 2004 12:00 a.m. - Yahoo! News: Entertainment - Movies
Variety - Nasty ghosts of Portugal's past worm their way through Jose Fonseca e Costa's "Fascination," in which a kind of midnight world of murderous fascists invades a middle-aged exec's blandly normal life. The movie is suffused with a mature grasp of traditional storytelling that values classical imagery, stately pace and subtle psychological intrigue --- all of which steer things away from what could have been laughable in less assured hands. Absence from fests since local December opening points to an indifferent response, with the pic's only international prospects lying in Brazil, where the adapted novel is well-known. Vet cineaste Fonseca e Costa and fellow scripter Jose Constancio cleverly shift the location and political content of the novel by Tabajara Ruas (a previous collaborator with the helmer) from the Brazil-Uruguay border to the Portuguese-Spanish frontier. This rejiggering creates a sometimes stiff, sometimes engrossing political horror-mystery containing shades of Hitchcock, Chabrol, Francesco Rosi and compatriot Manoel de Oliveira, especially in the latter master's obsessions with bringing Portugal's disquieting past into the present.
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