Rent The Portuguese Nun (2009)

3.4 of 5 from 75 ratings
2h 2min
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Synopsis:
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2011 tells the story of 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.
Actors:
, , Camané, , , Aldina Duarte, , , Francisco Mozos
Directors:
Producers:
Sandro Aguilar, Luís Urbano
Writers:
Eugène Green
Aka:
A Religiosa Portuguesa
Studio:
Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
Genres:
Drama
Collections:
A Brief History of Films About Nuns
Countries:
Portugal
BBFC:
Release Date:
09/04/2012
Run Time:
122 minutes
Languages:
French Dolby Digital 2.0, Portuguese Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour

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Reviews (1) of The Portuguese Nun

Not my kind of religion - The Portuguese Nun review by DJ

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22/11/2020

This director has a "style": expressionless actors delivering lines without emotion or inflection; dialogue that is verbose and (faux?) intellectual without any of the characteristics of normal conversation; depopulated sets - even in circumstances that would be bustling with life; very long, lingering shots panning across the set or the cityscape; artfully prepared scenes that somehow feature a 'picture within the picture' - an actor playing a nun encounters a nun, actors making love in a movie within the movie reproduce the scene in their 'real' life etc.

So it's an Emporer's new clothes movie: you either think it's terribly clever and interesting and different and challenging and a brilliant way to illustrate some philosophical arguments, or you think it's tedious, contrived, self-absorbed trivia. Some reviewers gave this film 5 stars, so it's clearly my failing that I fall firmly into the second group

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