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ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLOND HAIR GIRL
 | QFT
Saturday 24 April 9.15pm
£6.50/6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Manoel de Oliveira / Portugal/Spain/France / 2009 / 64 mins / Print source: New Wave films | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | The cinema’s most senior filmmaker, Manoel de Oliveira, brings us this deceptively simple, perfectly set gem.
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl is based on a short story by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, the renowned nineteenth-century author often regarded as the Flaubert of Portugal.
While on a train bound for the Algarve, a beleaguered man recounts his troubles to his sympathetic neighbour. He is Macário, a former Lisbon accountant who worked for his uncle’s shop and fell madly in love with Luisa (Catarina Wallenstein), the titular blond-haired beauty who lived across the street from his office window.
The film’s many references to painting and literature add rich textures to the luscious drawing rooms where the characters gather. Entertaining and enlightening, de Oliveira’s new film displays an incredible youthfulness belying his one hundred years.
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