Besides the director, the actress Leonor Baldaque and fado singers Aldina Duarte and Camané were also present during the screening.
This is Green’s fourth feature film since “Le Pont des Arts” and his first spoken in Portuguese, during which 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 PORTUGUESE NUN RECEIVES OVATION AT LOCARNO 10.08.2009
THE PORTUGUESE NUN, Eugène Green’s latest film, was screened this afternoon at the Locarno Film Festival before 3000 people. In the end, the film received an impressive ovation.