The protagonist is not necessarily likeable, but the film maker ensures he is compelling, both physically in the way he moves and reacts, and emotionally as he responds to people and, especially, things. It is shot mostly at night, wonderfully catching the colours in what we usually think of as black. Not many films keep coming back to the mind as this one does, just for its beauty, and the success with which it shows how an obsession can consume a person.
Review of O Fantasma
