Les lettres portugaises

(2014) Letters of a Portuguese Nun/ Les lettres portugaises (In French with English subtitles) HISTORICAL DRAMA

Associate produced, co-written and directed by Bruno François-Boucher that stars Ségolène Point in a one person performance as if she is on stage, but in this case she enters into a monastery dresses up as a nun reciting actual letters discovered from 1669 we find out her name is Mariana Alcoforado. And although the nun's lover/ soldier, Noël de Chamilly (Nicolas Herman) is shown, he does not have an actual role other than he often writes back to her. At some point we also find out he does not even read the letters she sends him, he just sticks them into a drawer while she pleads her heart out. Then it is like, at the end it was soon revealed that a portion of her actual letters were lost at sea, she is also seen burning a letter a or two. Meaning that if some of the letters were either burned or destroyed, how were historians know what was said. It belongs more on a stage than it does on screen.