Green's Nun and de Oliveira's Girl to screen at London
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Two recent Portuguese productions, starring two rising local actresses, will be presented at the forthcoming 53rd Times BFI London Film Festival (October 14-29).
First seen at the latest Locarno Film Festival (see news) and still unreleased in Portugal, The Portuguese Nun is the fourth film by French director Eugène Green (2001 Louis-Delluc Award winner for Toutes les Nuits).
Green cast 2003 Shooting Star Leonor Baldaque (a regular in Manoel de Oliveira's films) to play a French actress who is in Lisbon shooting an adaptation of Gabriel de Guilleragues' Letters of a Portuguese Nun.
Read the article and see the programme on Cineuropa.org