The puppets have large, lambent eyes, and, compared to some Hollywood stars, their faces are actually very expressive.

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The elder actors conjure stifled furies with their pensive stillness and chisel-sharp diction, and Oliveira aided by the lambent evocation of gaslight by his cinematographer, Renato Berta presents them in frames of dramatic precision that evoke the enduring agonies of a vanished century.

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