A RELIGIOSA PORTUGUESA
The Portuguese Nun
Portugal/France
2009
127 minutes
A French actress shooting a movie in Lisbon about a 17th century nun's torrid love affair becomes fascinated by a real nun she sees praying in a chapel next to her hotel. Inept melodrama whose intriguing ideas and occasional sly humour get lost in stilted, ponderous tableaux amateurishly filmed.
An O Som e a Fúria/MACT Productions presentation/production, with the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture/Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fundo de Investimento para o Cinema e o Audiovisual; with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, RTP. (Portuguese distributor, O Som e a Fúria.)
Starring Leonor Baldaque, Ana Moreira, Adrien Michaux, Beatriz Batarda, Diogo Dória, Carloto Cotta, Francisco Mozos, Eugène Green; with the special participation of Camané, Aldina Duarte.
Directed and written by Eugène Green; produced by Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar; director of photography (Tóbis), Raphaël O'Byrne; art director and costume designer, Zé Branco; film editor, Valérie Loiseleux.
Screened: distributor advance press screening, UCI El Corte Inglés 12 (Lisbon), April 30th 2010.
Portugal/France
2009
127 minutes
A French actress shooting a movie in Lisbon about a 17th century nun's torrid love affair becomes fascinated by a real nun she sees praying in a chapel next to her hotel. Inept melodrama whose intriguing ideas and occasional sly humour get lost in stilted, ponderous tableaux amateurishly filmed.
An O Som e a Fúria/MACT Productions presentation/production, with the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture/Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fundo de Investimento para o Cinema e o Audiovisual; with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, RTP. (Portuguese distributor, O Som e a Fúria.)
Starring Leonor Baldaque, Ana Moreira, Adrien Michaux, Beatriz Batarda, Diogo Dória, Carloto Cotta, Francisco Mozos, Eugène Green; with the special participation of Camané, Aldina Duarte.
Directed and written by Eugène Green; produced by Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar; director of photography (Tóbis), Raphaël O'Byrne; art director and costume designer, Zé Branco; film editor, Valérie Loiseleux.
Screened: distributor advance press screening, UCI El Corte Inglés 12 (Lisbon), April 30th 2010.
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