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The Letter

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.

Date: 09/22/1999
Rating: 6.0
Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Maria João Pires, Luís Miguel Cintra, Stanislas Merhar, Ricardo Trêpa, Anny Romand, Françoise Fabian

Chiara Mastroianni as Mme de Clèves in The Letter Chiara Mastroianni

Pedro Abrunhosa as Pedro Abrunhosa in The Letter Pedro Abrunhosa

Antoine Chappey as M. de Clèves in The Letter Antoine Chappey

Leonor Silveira as La religieuse in The Letter Leonor Silveira

Maria João Pires as Maria João Pires in The Letter Maria João Pires

Luís Miguel Cintra as M. da Silva in The Letter Luís Miguel Cintra

Stanislas Merhar as François de Guise in The Letter Stanislas Merhar

Ricardo Trêpa as Intrus in The Letter Ricardo Trêpa

Anny Romand as Mme de Silva in The Letter Anny Romand

Françoise Fabian as Mme de Chartres in The Letter Françoise Fabian