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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Centenarian de Oliveira produces another delicate, light-hearted, charmingly digressive miniature in which a young accountant tells a stranger on a train about his having fallen for the titular beauty, who lives across from the apartment of an uncle for whom he works. The film itself is (unsurprisingly) not a little eccentric in its relaxed and wayward approach to plot and motivation, but its elegant images, its gently ironic wit and its deceptively innocent tone are extremely captivating.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast: Ricardo Trêpa, Catrina Wallenstein, Diogo Doria full cast
Duration: 63 mins
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