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Original title : A Religiosa Portuguesa
Directed by : Eugène Green
Duration: 127 minutes
Genre: Drama
Country : Portugal, France (2009)
Original language: Portuguese

 Synopsis

Men and women imagine a life for themselves, they fight to construct it as best they can. And often their fate is turned upside down by a simple meeting. Julie, who has just come out of a complicated love affair, is happy to go away to Portugal to make an austere feature film in which she plays a nun. In the evenings, she encounters strangers who feed her experience. One night, she notices a nun alone in a chapel, and she goes to speak to her.

 

The Portuguese Nun .

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