The film 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.
The magazine Les Inrock describes THE PORTUGUESE NUN as “particularly powerful and singular”, Eugène Green’s most complete movie, “with his most beautiful shots, thanks to an impressive control of his art and the tools he created to achieve his goals.”
The newspaper Le Monde acclaims the playful grace with which Eugène Green gives a new life to “The Portuguese Nun”, (…) between delirious mockery, effortless erudition and pure grace celebration.” (Jacques Mandelbaum)
Le Figaro speaks of a film where “city and faces dialogue in a wonderful Portuguese poem, still and travelling, clear and fascinating, familiar and legendary.” (Marie-Noëlle Tranchant)
The newspaper Libération describes “a new film, more joyful and light than ever.” (Éric Loret)
L’Humanité finds in THE PORTUGUESE NUN “the equivalent for the 17th century French language harmonious swing, where luminous close ups of the heroin succeed to others that overfly Lisbon, city of dreams.” (Émile Breton)
The magazine Grazia describes “a touching film, whispered as a prayer to god or a love song.” (Thomas Pietrois-Chabassier)
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.
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