The film will be part of the Spectrum section, comprising “strong and innovative work by experienced film makers and artists who provide an essential contribution to international film culture”. The Spectrum selection, which sets a high quality standard in substance and style, comprehends names as Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, François Ozon and Elia Suleiman.
Green’s fourth feature film, after being released in France November the 11th, where it has already been seen by over 13.000 spectators, has been enthusiastically welcomed by international press; it is described as a poetic and captivating film, with a very personal style.
This is the director’s first Portuguese spoken film. It 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.
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.
The film will be released in Portuguese theaters on May the 6th.