It's the adaptation of a text of a Portuguese writer by the hand of the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira.
Eccentricities of a blonde girl is a movie without surprises. It is an adaptation of a text of Eça de Queiroz to the film language of Manoel de Oliveira. It's a dream, a vision that by becoming reality disappoints. The protagonist, Macario, played by Ricardo Trêpa, admires Louise, the actress Catarina Wallenstein, a girl he peers from afar, from a window and falls madly in love with her until one day he discovers that not everything is what it seems, she has a uniqueness that demarcates her from other women for the worst reasons possible. The film itself is not exciting, I think the difficulty lies in translating the Queirós language of the nineteenth century to the present, although the themes are universal, false appearances, materialism and said social conventions that govern our society. And despite all these but, there are two positive developments that I would like to highlight the work of the young actress Catarina Wallenstein, who composed an angelic character, almost ethereal, which gives to Luisa Vilaça great credibility and the composition of actor Diogo Doria, who gave life to an uncle Francisco very austere and demanding, but extremely convincing. I should add that, and may not seem important that the image chosen for the poster in Portuguese is truly unfortunate in terms of communication, it adds absolutely nothing, and it is a bad choice. Interestingly, the same cannot be said of the international version, in fact selected photographic composition is much more interesting and appealing, the question is why the unusual choice in national version. Good cinema.
