Correspondances / The Portuguese Nun
Event
Virgile and Blanche exchanged glances briefly on the dance floor of a party. They did not introduce themselves, do not know each other, do not exchange a word, but from that moment on, Virgile falls madly in love with Blanche. Shy, he gets her email address and writes her a message. But not only does she not remember him, she loves someone else, Eustache. In the same context as Madame de La Fayette's The Princess of Clèves, the progressively developing love relationship between the two correspondents takes on a depth that is somewhat at odds with the contemporary way of living, but love will triumph and will take the best over the rejection. This medium-length film portrays a love triangle in the age of electronic communication and marks Eugène Green's debut on digital media. The film is also the result of the invitation of the Jeonju festival in South Korea, as part of the collective feature film Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007), a project which, that year, also collaborated Pedro Costa and Harun Farocki.
Julie de Hauranne, a young French actress who speaks her mother's native language, Portuguese, but has never been to Lisbon, arrives for the first time in this city, where she will shoot a film based on Gabriel de Guilleragues' Letter of a Portuguese Nun. Strolling around the city during the shoot breaks, she becomes fascinated by a nun who prays every evening in the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte, at Alto da Graça. During her stay, the young woman has a series of brief worldly encounters who, like in her previous existence, seem fleeting and inconsequential. They are characters a little lost, torn by the ephemerality of love, multiple and fragmentary. But one night, Julie talks to the nun who, in a state of grace, tells her of one and incorruptible love that will finally make sense to her life and her destiny.
Julie de Hauranne, a young French actress who speaks her mother's native language, Portuguese, but has never been to Lisbon, arrives for the first time in this city, where she will shoot a film based on Gabriel de Guilleragues' Letter of a Portuguese Nun. Strolling around the city during the shoot breaks, she becomes fascinated by a nun who prays every evening in the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte, at Alto da Graça. During her stay, the young woman has a series of brief worldly encounters who, like in her previous existence, seem fleeting and inconsequential. They are characters a little lost, torn by the ephemerality of love, multiple and fragmentary. But one night, Julie talks to the nun who, in a state of grace, tells her of one and incorruptible love that will finally make sense to her life and her destiny.
