The Portuguese Nun (2009) ( A Religiosa Portuguesa ) ( La monja portuguesa (La religieuse portugaise) )

The Portuguese Nun (2009) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: A Religiosa Portuguesa
Alternate Title: La monja portuguesa (La religieuse portugaise)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
122 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Eugène Green

Written By:
Eugène Green

Actors:
Leonor Baldaque ..... Julie de Hauranne
Francisco Mozos ..... Vasco
Diogo Dória ..... D. Henrique Cunha
Ana Moreira ..... Irma Joana
Eugène Green ..... Denis Verde
Adrien Michaux ..... Martin Dautand
Beatriz Batarda ..... Madalena
Carloto Cotta ..... D. Sebastião
Camané ..... Um fadista
Aldina Duarte ..... Uma fadista
José Manuel Neto ..... Guitarra portuguesa
Carlos Manuel Proença ..... Viola
Miguel Ramos ..... Viola
Paulo Paz ..... Contrabaixa
Manuel Mozos ..... Receptionista

Synopsis:

Young French actress Julie de Hauranne speaks Portuguese like her mother but has never been to Lisbon. She arrives in the city for the first time just as they are about to start shooting a film based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun by the Count of Guilleragues, a French nobleman from the 17th century. She quickly becomes fascinated by a nun who prays every night in the chapel of Our Lady of the Mountain, on Graça Hill. During her stay, the young woman has a series of encounters that seem as ephemeral and inconsequential as those from her past. And so, on the night she finally speaks to the nun, she manages to perceive the meaning of life and of her destiny.

The Portuguese Nun, obliquely inspired by a book of 17th-century love letters of enigmatic authorship, is itself, among other things, a love letter to the city of Lisbon. The long, patient opening shot floats through battered, beautiful streets as a fado - the passionate music that is to this city what blues is to Memphis - plays underneath. Several later scenes take place on a hotel terrace with an appealing view of an old hillside neighborhood, and a climactic encounter takes place in a Baroque church. There is more music, moonlight dancing on the water, and much sun-bleached limestone.

One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2011 tells the story of a Julie, a young French actress shooting a film in Lisbon about a 17th Century nun who is seduced by a soldier. Among the city's enigmatic and transient inhabitants, she encounters a young Nun and the exchange between the two women changes Julie's destiny forever. This absorbing drama is the fourth film by the acclaimed New York-born filmmaker Eugene Green and his first to be released in the UK.

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