This is Green’s fourth feature film since “Le Pont des Arts” and his first spoken in Portuguese. THE PORTUGUESE NUN features the Portuguese actors Leonor Baldaque, Ana Moreira, Beatriz Batarda, Carloto Cotta and Diogo Dória, and the French actor Adrien Michaux, as well as the special participations of fado singers Camané and Aldina Duarte, which are fundamental, according to the director, to convey the musical soul of Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city and one of the main characters of this film.
Throughout THE PORTUGUESE NUN we get to know Julie de Hauranne, a young French actress who speaks her mother’s language, Portuguese, and that arrives to Lisbon for the first time to act in a film inspired by Guilleragues’ Letters of a Portuguese Nun. She is soon fascinated by a nun who comes to pray every night at the Nossa Senhora do Monte Chapel on Graça Hill. During her stay, the young woman has a number of encounters, which, much like her previous existence, seem ephemeral and without consequence. But one night, after finally speaking with the nun, she glimpses her destiny and the meaning of her life.