A humble civil servant lives with his sick mother. He develops an unhealthy obsession towards a rich young woman and spies on her regularly. She is the daughter of a rightwing politician who conspires to arrest a leftwing agitator (or something along those lines).
It has a few qualities, for example it is reasonably successful in establishing a certain melancholic mood. Antero de Oliveira in this bears an extraordinary resemblance to Patrick Dewaere. The sequence emulating silent cinema is well done and pre-dates a similarly inspired one (if I am not mistaken) in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). On the other hand, an oral sex sequence reminds one of a similar one (if I am not mistaken) in Les amants (1958).
Rating: 39
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