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The Convent

1995, Movie, NR, 90 mins

CONVENT, THE | O CONVENTO
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If you reach for your revolver when you hear the word "art," give this one a miss. Whip together Faust, a search for the true identity of Shakespeare and some chilly scenes from a bourgeois marriage. Fold in a quest to discover which of six suspects is Satan in disguise, season liberally with self-conscious symbolism, and you've got Manoel de Oliveira's THE CONVENT. John Malkovich is out to prove that the Bard was really a Spanish Jew named Jacques Peres. The documents he ne... read more leave a comment
Year: 1995
Rated NR

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Cast
Catherine Deneuve: Helene
John Malkovich: Michael Padovic
Luis Miguel Cintra: Baltar
Leonor Silveira: Piedade
Duarte D'Almeida: Baltazar
Heloisa Miranda: Berta

 

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