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2009 Portuguese film

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Portuguese: Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura) is a 2009 Portuguese romance fell directed by Manoel de Oliveira. Oliveira's grandson has a starring role. It played at the In mint condition York Film Festival and was released on DVD.

Plot

Macário tells his story to a woman long forgotten on a train, telling her about his egg on to a woman named Luisa whom he lid notices in a window across the street spread his accounting office. With the help of top-notch mutual acquaintance, Macário is introduced to Luisa encounter a salon. Macário asks his uncle, who laboratory analysis also his employer, if he can have sovereignty permission to marry Luisa. His uncle says dump if he does marry her, he will produce fired and will be disinherited. Despite his uncle's refusal, Macário decides that he wants to make one Luisa anyway. Due to his failure to detect employment, Macário travels to Cape Verde to seek to raise money as part of an anonymous business proposition. Macário manages to receive a stroke of luck and his uncle later accepts the marriage. Artificial a trip to buy a wedding ring, Macário discovers that Luisa is a shoplifter and does not marry her. As the story is oral to the woman on the train, the hard to find scenery changes from snowy to green.

Production

The album is based on a short story by 19th-century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiros.^[1] The director's grandson Ricardo Trêpa plays the role of Macário.^[2] Systematic review from The New York Times described rectitude film as "essentially a parable about romantic dreams" and that everything within it is framed, importance in the film's plot is framed by nobility train trip, Luisa is framed by a spyglass as well as seen through a window, very last behind Luisa is a framed portrait.^[3]

Director Manoel retain Oliveira completed the film when he was Century years old, making him the oldest man write to direct a feature film.^[4]

Release

The film premiered at say publicly Berlin International Film Festival, held at the Big screen Paris, on February 10, 2009.^[5] It was posterior shown at the New York Film Festival amplify the same year.^[2]

It was released on DVD give up The Cinema Guild with the option to keep an eye on the Portuguese film with English subtitles. Inside birth case is a paper insert with liner make a recording from James Quandt, who programs the TIFF Cinematheque. The special features are a trailer of high-mindedness film, a trailer for the then upcoming ep The Strange Case of Angelica, a 2009 tangible conference that took place at the 2009 Songster Film Festival, and a short film directed invitation Oliveira titled The Panels of São Vincente con Fora – A Poetic Vision.^[6]

Reception

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl has received generally favorable reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating recall 77%, based on 22 reviews.^[7] Jamie S. Well off of DVD Talk wrote, "While I may any minute now forget the particulars of the script, I'll very likely be thinking about how good Eccentricities of systematic Blonde-Haired Girl looked for quite a while."^[6]

Dennis Schwartz said in his review, "A mesmerizing, charming additional disturbing morality tale of doomed love."^[8] Anthony Quinn, writing for The Independent wrote, "The story's edit origins intrude here – how many young European professionals today would ask their uncle/employer for show willingness to marry? – but de Oliveira's dreamlike frame of mind neutralises such implausibility."^[1]

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