Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura (2009)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Manoel de Oliveira

Writers:

Eça de Queirós (short story)
Manoel de Oliveira (adaptation)

Release Date:

30 April 2009 (Portugal)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blond woman that turns his life upside down. |

Plot Keywords:

Love | Jewelry Store | Ring | Fan | Based On Short Story

Cast

Ricardo Trêpa	...	Macário
Catarina Wallenstein	...	Luísa Vilaça
Diogo Dória	...	Tio Francisco
Júlia Buisel	...	Mãe de Luísa
Leonor Silveira	...	Mulher no trem
Filipe Vargas	...	Amigo
Miguel Seabra	...	Notário
Rogério Samora	...	Homem do chapéu
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luís Miguel Cintra
Glória de Matos
Miguel Guilherme
Paulo Matos
Carlos Santos	...	Caixeiro
Rogério Vieira

Also Known As:

Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Canada: English title) (festival title)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (International: English title)
Singularités d'une jeune fille blonde (France)

Runtime:

Argentina:64 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | Germany:64 min (Berlin International Film Festival)

Country:

Portugal | Spain | France

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Lisbon, Portugal

Company:

Filmes do Tejo

Don't be seen to fidget

I've given this film a respectful score, if only because it is like being privileged to visit a grande dame in her home, where everything is correct and so boring you want to tell it point by point to your friends, who you hope are aware that you are not boring yourself. And I'd like to suppose the film is similarly ironic about its bland characters (a lover in the Cape Verde Islands who writes out for his young woman their physical geography, as my encyclopedia would call it). Its argument may be about the boring eternity of the upper bourgeoisie even in our world where the same fine things are now paid for in euros. But the film may fall into its own trap, as with the titles that let a conductor go seat by seat in a first-class train car checking tickets while credits very slowly appear. Viewer, your attention might stray to what may be outside the windows, but notice the lady with the pearl necklace, for she will be the perfect audience for this touching story. The best hope for irony might be a poem or two of Pessoa's, even if recited by a distinguished actor in evening dress.