La Lettre (1999)

Drama

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.

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Runtime: 107 mins Rating: 6.0

Cast

Françoise Fabian

Mme de Chartres

Antoine Chappey

Loockeed

Chiara Mastroianni

Mme de Clèves

Stanislas Merhar

François de Guise

Ricardo Trêpa

Intrus

Leonor Silveira

La religieuse

Luís Miguel Cintra

M. da Silva

Anny Romand

Mme de Silva

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Crew

Ann Chakraverty

Set Decoration

Paulo Branco

Producer

Jean-Paul Mugel

Sound Designer

Jean-François Auger

Sound Mixer

Emmanuel Machuel

Director of Photography

Manoel de Oliveira

Director

Manoel de Oliveira

Screenplay

Valérie Loiseleux

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La Lettre (1999)

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