The Letter (1999)
3.3 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman (Chiara Mastroianni) marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa (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. - Actors:
- Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Françoise Fabian, Maria João Pires, Anny Romand, Luís Miguel Cintra, Stanislas Merhar, Claude Lévèque, Ricardo Trêpa, Alain Guillo, Jean-Loup Wolff, Alexandre Nanaia, Marcel Terroux, Claude Sempere, Marianne Bey Zave
- Directors:
- Manoel De Oliveira
- Writers:
- Manoel De Oliveira, Madame de La Fayette
- Aka:
- La lettre
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
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