Simultaneously, THE PORTUGUESE NUN continues to be screened at most regarded international film festivals:
34th Hong Kong International Film Festival, which ended on April the 6th, defined the film as “masterful” and enhanced its “attractive cast and the charming backdrop of Lisbon’s cityscape”.
Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, from April the 7th to the 18th, the largest and most prestigious film event in South America, presents Eugène Green as an eccentric and fascinating director and speaks about his “beautiful and ecstatic plans (…) which adapt to different moods while keeping their personality”.
CPH:PIX, from April the 15th to the 25th, a new Danish Festival mentions Green as one of “Europe’s largest filmmaking talents with a special sensitivity for words and underplayed humour, which is just as intelligent as it is disarming”.
San Francisco Film Festival, from April the 22nd to May the 6th, USA’s longest lasting festival, published on its site that “Eugène Green’s complex and unconventional film, (is) an idiosyncratic amalgam of formalistic play, subtle humor and big ideas. Green’s ruminative approach embraces a refined minimalism and his stylistic conceits (...) coalesce and ultimately mesmerize. But it’s the attention he lavishes on Lisbon’s moods, music, literature and cinema (…) that give The Portuguese Nun an intellectual heft and a quality of nostalgia that is impossible to resist.” (Michael Read)
The film will also be screened at Jeonju International Film Festival, in South Korea, happening from April the 29th to May the 7th.
This is Green’s fourth feature film and his first spoke 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 participation 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.
IndieLisboa
Cinemateca Portuguesa
Hong Kong International Film Festival
BAFICI
CPH PIX
San Francisco International Film Festival http://www.cphpix.dk/n/a2.lasso?tt=f&s=&sf=&ser=1109&e=1
Jeonju International Film Festival