Girl With Green Eyes (1964)

A young Irish country girl (Rita Tushingham) moves to the city of Dublin after her convent school education. When she meets a much older man (Peter Finch), she falls in love with him but she isn't mature enough to handle the realities of love versus the romanticism of it. Based on the novel THE LONELY GIRL by Edna O'Brien (who adapted her book for the screen) and directed by Desmond Davis (CLASH OF THE TITANS). I don't think I've seen a more adept film that examines the immaturity of someone too young to understand the machinations of love, especially when dealing with the relationship of a naive youngster and a more mature adult who knows too well the messiness of love. For those of us who've been there, it's almost painful watching poor Rita Tushingham making such obvious missteps and you just want to cry out, "Oh, honey don't!". It's a compassionate and affecting drama wonderfully acted by Tushingham and Finch. I could have done without the film's last few seconds which seem tacked on but other than that, it's a lovely piece of cinema. With Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean and Julian Glover.