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The Portuguese Nun

Play trailer Poster for The Portuguese Nun Released Oct 22, 2010 2h 7m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A young French actress in Lisbon is intrigued by a nun kneeling in a chapel near a film shoot.

Critics Reviews

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Peter Matthews Sight & Sound If you feel utterly nonplussed, wait and see. You may find that you have been seduced by stealth and entered the small, growing band of devotees for whom Green's cinema comes near to fulfilling an absolute. Jul 6, 2018 Full Review Philip French Guardian A solemn, portentous affair, dramatically, verbally and visually, where everyone talks in an uninflected manner. Jan 26, 2011 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Elegant, eccentric and absolutely captivating, this is simply a gem. Rated: 5/5 Jan 21, 2011 Full Review Daniel Gumble CineVue The sense of smugness that emanates through the screen is almost palpable. At times I felt as though my patience was being deliberately tested. Rated: 1/5 Nov 6, 2018 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Superior, elegant, distinctive, formalistic, unconventional art film. Rated: A Oct 9, 2014 Full Review Alistair Harkness Scotsman Baldaque is called upon to spend most of the film wandering the city having enigmatic encounters with her co-star, an orphan boy and a real Portuguese nun. Epiphanies duly follow. As does boredom. Rated: 2/5 Apr 10, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Para los fans del cine contemplativo, paisajes, secuencias largas y camara subjetiva. Una actriz francesa viaja a Lisboa a protagonizar una pelicula sobre la vida de una monja y su romance con un general. Pero vemos como cambia la vida del personaje principal y su buena relacion con su medio ambiente. Bien actuada y dirigida, aunque pudieron haberla contado en media hora. (texto intencionalmente sin acentos). Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member I saw everything just to mock. It's really bad. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The acrobatic flying team Bilingual Baby has been thrilling audiences for more than 20 years. Now, you can watch members of the Lisbon, Portugal, Europe's popular language as they attempt daring fluency maneuvers and bold aerial formations. "I found this movie great great :) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Not for everyone, this is a stylized and unconventional look at a woman's visit to Lisbon... reassessing her life. The director is a director in the film, making what looks like a stylized and unconventional film about a woman assessing her life... Lisbon looks lovely. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Half of the time watching the film is spent admiring the beautiful music and scenery, and the rest of the time you wonder what on earth is going on. However having asked yourself "is this for real?" throughout most of the film, you cannot help but smile when the film concludes in a thoroughly satisfying manner. Self-conscious, clever and funny, if a little off-the-wall. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Mike M In terms of a satisfying night out for anyone other than the snootiest of cinephiles, we could maybe do with rather less transparent performances: Baldaque, in particular, is as diaphanous, as barely there, as some of the light cotton frocks she's clad in, and if that's perhaps the point - that, like many actresses, she goes where the wind takes her, an empty vessel that requires filling up - it suggests a fairly low opinion of actresses. And I'd have liked to see more evidence of humour, some sense Green knows just how cranky and recherche he's being (cf. Guy Maddin)... Mostly, though, the tone is dry and academic, like Raul Ruiz deprived of the twinkle in his eye. Green casts himself as the director of the film-within-the-film, and gives himself a heroically embarrassing discotheque sequence ("Hipness can be pretty depressing," he sighs); a roguish, shaggy-haired Billy Connolly lookalike, he gives the impression of somebody who has the potential to provide real, valuable mischief at the expense of our hidebound filmic traditions, but that impression isn't quite realised here. What "The Portugues Nun" shares with Jose Luis Guerin's "In the City of Sylvia" - which managed to project a similar timelessness without ever seeming quite this *stuffy* - is a sure and seductive feel for the streets of a city in summertime. But this, too, is ephemeral, and must pass. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/11 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A young French actress in Lisbon is intrigued by a nun kneeling in a chapel near a film shoot.
Director
Eugène Green
Producer
Sandro Aguilar
Screenwriter
Eugène Green
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 22, 2010, Original
Runtime
2h 7m