the film's got very stylish, if not utterly original, camera-work throughout (that's what makes it a better-than-average movie) - and you don't mind the images' being grainy at all. the finest scene, to my mind, in this respect, was when the main characters are shot through the windshield covered by patches of rain pouring down on it. but, sadly, the characters are rather shallow, consequently hard to sympathize with, and the story isn't very convincing either - it's only mildly complicated and it does not offer more than a run-of-the-mill crime drama. it is also too redundant at some places - things it already communicated subtly and implicitly get said out in a rather direct way by some of the characters or through some superfluous scene. watch it once, though, it's not bad at all.
Review of Terra Estrangeira
