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The Letter (1999)

ALL 09/22/1999 (fr) Drama 107 Min
  • Release
    09/22/1999
  • Production
    Gemini Films, Wanda Films, Madragoa Filmes
  • Rotten tomato
    59.44%
  • Original title
    La Lettre
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

  2. Story

  4. Paulo Branco

    Producer



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  1. Chiara Mastroianni

    Mme de Clèves

  2. Pedro Abrunhosa

    Pedro Abrunhosa

  3. Antoine Chappey

    M. de Clèves

  4. Leonor Silveira

    La religieuse

  5. Maria João Pires

    Maria João Pires

  6. Luís Miguel Cintra

    M. da Silva

  7. Stanislas Merhar

    François de Guise

  8. Ricardo Trêpa

    Intrus

  9. Anny Romand

    Mme de Silva

  10. Françoise Fabian

    Mme de Chartres

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Casts : 10 , Crews : 13

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The Letter (1999) 107 Min

ALL 09/22/1999 (fr)
Drama
  • Release 09/22/1999
  • Production
    Gemini Films, Wanda Films, Madragoa Filmes
  • Original title La Lettre
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

  1. Manoel de Oliveira

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Valérie Loiseleux

    Editor

  4. Paulo Branco

    Producer



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