Movie Description
La Lettre
(1999)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Manoel de Oliveira
- Producer : Paulo Branco
- Writer : Jacques Parsi
- Editor : Valérie Loiseleux
- Cast : Chiara Mastroianni,Pedro Abrunhosa,Antoine Chappey,Leonor Silveira,Maria João Pires,Luís Miguel Cintra,Stanislas Merhar,Ricardo Trêpa,Anny Romand,Françoise Fabian,Alain Guillo,Claude Lévèque,Claude Sempere,Marcel Terroux,Alexandre Nanaia
Cast
Mme de Clèves
Pedro Abrunhosa
M. de Clèves
La religieuse
Maria João Pires
M. da Silva
François de Guise
Intrus
Mme de Silva
Mme de Chartres
Le directeur de Jouillerie
Le médecin de Mme de Chartres
Voix Off Présentateur TV
Le Jardinier
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Facts
Original TitleLa Lettre
Status Released
Release Information
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1999-09-22
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 47m
Production CompaniesGemini Films,Wanda Films,Madragoa Filmes
Genres
- Drama
