This film launched her into worldwide recognition and a decades-long career. She was brilliant here, playing a shy, repressed, simple but decent shopgirl who falls in love with an upper middle class college student. He is enthralled by her innocence and lack of guile. She falls sweetly and naturally into her role of helpmate. He increasingly sees her as a social handicap among his pseudo-intellectual friends and after a cool reception of her by his parents, dumps her.
It's a simple story but there's more in these 90 minutes than in hours and hours of mainstream American films.
The film ends with her gazing blankly at the camera for a minute or so. Long enough for us to feel the full depth of her despair. Haunting and unforgettable.
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