Portugal/France/Spain
Feature Film
Original Title: Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writers: Manoel de Oliveira, Eça de Queirós
Cinematographer: Sabine Lancelin
Cast: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória, Júlia Buisel, Leonor Silveira, Filipe Vargas, Miguel Seabra, Rogério Samora
On a long train journey to the coast, a sullen young man relates to the woman sat next to him the story of how he fell for a beautiful blonde, courted her against his uncle’s wishes, experienced financial hardships, and finally had his heart broken, in centenarian de Oliveira’s formerly ravishing and gently humorous modern-set but (slightly awkwardly though fascinatingly) barely modernised adaptation of Eça de Queirós’s 19th century short story. Iain.Stott
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