Julie, a young French actress and a fluent Portuguese speaker, is in Lisbon for the first time. She is shooting a film there based on Letters from a Portuguese Nun — a 17th-century epistolary novel, ...

For this 2009 French drama, the eccentric, American-born director Eugène Green follows an actress (Leonor Baldaque) around Lisbon as she works on a film adapted from the 17th-century novel Letters of ...