Les lettres portugaises

I didn't know of Segolène Point, yet a quick search over the internet revealed she's a theatre producer and actress, and it shows. In this ten-year old film, one of the handful she appears to have made, she shows remarkable acting skills, it is no mean feat she spends over an hour practically alone though in different settings, reciting her lines whilst keeping the viewer's attention. Her diction is impeccable, her presence immense. The film is exquisitely shot, very intimately framed and filmed in stunning locations in Portugal and France. The officer to whom the nun purportedly (there is some disagreement on the actual authorship of the letters) writes the correspondence is just sort of fleetingly presented, perhaps there ought to be more of him in the film; the way it is he might as well be omitted. Recommended.