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"The Convent"
1996
Directed by Manoel DeOliveira

Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival and NY Film Festival
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.  Starring John Malkovich and Catherine Deneuve.  French and Portuguese with English subtitles, Color.  90 minutes.