Product Description

An American professor and his beautiful French wife travel to a Portuguese monastery to research his theory that Shakespeare was actually of Spanish Jewish origin.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19126 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-07-02
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French, Portuguese
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Philosophical Movie
"O Convento" is a very strange movie, but is a enchanted movie also. Let-me try to explain this. If you don't like philosophy keep distance of this movie, but if you like some philosophical concepts from Nitzche, (specifically Zarathustra) you need to take this. It is not just another "just to fun movie", instead of this, is a movie that make you think about the evil and the goodness.
And, last but not least, you get a movie with Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich but pay attention in a very impressive performance of Luis Miguel and the beauty Leonor Silveira that compose Piedade with delicate. Luiz Miguel and Leonor Silveira outperform Malkovich and Deneuve.

The only major problem: The sound isn't very good and some takes aren't good illuminated.

This is not Hollywood
If you are looking for action, well explained plot and millions spent on computer effects - keep looking. This film is not for you, as it follows from previous reviews, you'll be very disappointed.

But if you wander around seeking a real pleasure for eye and mind - you've found it. It is very quiet, chamber, and definitely not straightforward. It is rather a sequence of brilliant etudes of light and color played by wonderful actors. Art of cinema at it's best.

Phantasmogoric and Preternatural Anarchaotic EVIL EVIL EVIL
DO NOT SEE THIS FILM IF YOU DO NOT ENJOY THE SADO-MACHIAVELLI-MASORETIC
VERSION OF THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERNOVILLE. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM IF YOU HATE
VAUGUE LITERARY, PHILOSOPHIC, KLEE COLORS AND ALLUSIONS THAT LEAD TO NOWHERE. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM IF YOU DO NOT ENJOY WATCHING ACTORS WHO WALK AND SIT VERY INACTIVELY IN SILENCE. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM IF YOU HATE DIALOGUE THAT LEADS NOWHERE AND SPUTTERS OFF INTO THE NEBULOUS FOG AND
HAZE OF THE ETERNAL ABYSS. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM IF YOU INTERMITTANT CAMEO APPEARANCES OF WOODY ALLEN BEHIND A WEEPING FERN ANNOY YOU. DO NOT SEE
THIS FILM IF YOU HATE LATE 20TH CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC AS A SOUND SCORE. DO NOT SEE THIS FILM IF YOU DREAD NOT SEEING OR SEEING INTUITIVE REASURANCES THAT REALITY AND A FRIENDLY TV COMMERCIAL IS JUST MOMENTS
AWAY TO RESCUE YOU FROM ETERNAL DAMNATION. PLEASE HANG IT ALL FOR HEAVENS SAKE
DO NOT SEE THIS FILM!