Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Door Manoel de Oliveira
2008 | 64 min
A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down. On a train to the Algarve, Macário tells his story to a sympathetic woman he's just met. In flashbacks he arrives in Lisbon to work as an accountant and a broker for his uncle. From his office window, he sees a young woman, Luísa: he's intrigued and finds her beautiful; she holds a Chinese fan near her face. He arranges to meet her, and they fall in love. When he tells his uncle he wants to marry, ...