THE PORTUGUESE NUN, released on November the 11th, is still in exhibition all around France. The film has been favorably welcomed by the critics, as we can read on Cahiers du Cinéma “The happiness to discover Eugène Green’s new feature, five years after “Le Pont des Arts”, reaches all expectations.” (T.M.), Le Nouvel Observateur speaks of an “amazingly taking, and very beautiful” film (P.M.) and Télérama of a “sentimental, spiritual and linguistic quest.”
Throughout THE PORTUGUESE NUN, with Leonor Baldaque, Ana Moreira, Beatriz Batarda, Diogo Dória and Adrien Michaux, 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.