The Portuguese Nun

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04/08/2012 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). See more 07/30/2011 I saw everything just to mock. It's really bad. See more 05/10/2011 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 :) See more 02/04/2011 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. See more 01/27/2011 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. See more Mike M 01/17/2011 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. See more Read all reviews

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