Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
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Directed by Manoel de Oliveira | 63 mins | 2009
In Oliveira’s rueful romantic tale, an accountant grows obsessed with a formidable young woman he spots in a window across the street, and tries to court her despite his uncle’s snobby disapproval. Ricardo Trepa, who was both Oliveira’s go-to lead and his grandson, plays the hapless gentleman, whose story of woe is elegantly framed through a conversation with a stranger on a train.
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