A tedious slog alleviated only by widescreen shots of the Portuguese capital and terrific fado singing.
The Portuguese Nun(A Religiosa Portuguesa)
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Portugal, France · 2009
2h 7m
Director Eugène Green
Starring Leonor Baldaque, Ana Moreira, Adrien Michaux, Beatriz Batarda
Genre Drama
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A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The Portuguese Nun has wit and feeling, though the wit is at times almost imperceptibly subtle and the feeling somewhat stylized.
Even those that have acquired a taste for Green's rigorous, super-ascetic aesthetic may find this French drama about a starlet (Baldaque) to be almost as bare as it is spare.
An unconventional movie that requires an unconventional mindset to appreciate.
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