Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Original title: Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura

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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.

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6.2/10

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Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Ricardo Trêpa is the director's grandson

Soundtracks
Arabesque No.1
for harp
By Claude Debussy
Performed by Ana Paula Miranda

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Review

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Portugese veteran's short story movie.

Is this the first movie by a hundred hear old director and is it any good? Clerk Trêpa working in his uncle's office becomes infatuated with the girl with the fan who he sees in the window opposite the one at which he clerks. He meets and wins her with curious ease but his uncle's unexplained opposition sends him off to Cape Verde where he makes a fortune off screen, that he loses equally easily and he finds his new intended has this alarming flaw - that's an hour and we can go home.

The simplicity of the staging and the glowing interior camera-work do contribute atmosphere but the emphasis is all over the place and the characterisations never connect up.

I'm not a great admirer of the films de Olivera made half a century back so I'm not likely to find this piece more than a curiosity. It has the Old Man Film quality of pieces like Huston's THE DEAD or IMMORTAL STORY without being as good.